Symposium: Sensory feedback and animal locomotion: perspectives from biology and biorobotics, January 5, 2018, San Francisco, California

动物用于运动的附肢，如翅膀和四肢，起着传感器和推进器的双重作用。来自传感器的及时和相关的反馈对动物的运动性能至关重要，也是机器人工程的关键设计特征。为了推进对感觉反馈在动物运动中作用的研究，将于2018年1月5日在加利福尼亚州旧金山举行比较生物学与解剖学学会(SICB)年会，题为“感觉反馈与动物运动：生物学和生物机器人学的视角”。通过一个不同的研究小组，这次研讨会将突出与动物运动相关的相关感觉刺激，对刺激进行编码的不同策略，以及生物学、工程学和机器人学之间的交叉。这次会议将促进生物学家和工程师之间新的跨学科合作，并确定可在机器人中实施的感觉控制系统开发的未来研究方向。此外，这次研讨会将包括一个导师计划，使六名美洲原住民本科生能够参加他们的第一次科学会议。六名研究生/博士后，他们也属于STEM中代表性不足的群体，将担任美洲原住民学生的导师。导师计划将确保这次会议对本科生来说是一次丰富的经历，并将使他们接触到各种科学学科、未来的研究生院导师和科学职业道路。动物的运动附肢，从昆虫的翅膀到四足动物的四肢，扮演着传感器和推进器的双重角色，感官反馈对动物的运动表现至关重要。一个跨学科的研讨会，“感觉反馈和动物运动：生物学和生物机器人的观点”，将在比较生物学和解剖学学会(SICB)年会上举行。与传感器集成的机器人附件也将依靠感觉反馈来调整输出信号。虽然工程师经常从生物学中寻求解决机器人运动中遇到的问题的方法，但生物学家也必须与工程师接触，利用计算机和机器人模型来帮助回答有关感觉反馈在产生有效运动中的作用的问题。通过一组跨越一系列学科和职业阶段的科学家，研讨会将展示可以在工程设备中实施的推进器运动的机械传感反馈的生物学原理，并促进未来旨在进一步将工程和机器人领域与更传统的生物学相结合的研究项目的发展。此外，与土著探险家计划合作，将重新建立一个成功的导师计划，让美洲原住民本科生参加他们的第一次科学会议。每一位美国原住民本科生都将与一位导师配对，以确保获得丰富和积极的体验。这个项目将为美洲原住民学生提供一个独特的机会，否则他们不会体验到与不同经验水平、不同机构类型、研究学科和种族背景的不同研究人员群体的互动。

The appendages animals use for locomotion, such as wings and limbs, perform dual roles as sensors and propulsors. Timely and relevant feedback from the sensors is critical to the locomotor performance of animals and is a key design feature of robotic engineering. In order to advance the study of the role of sensory feedback in animal locomotion, a symposium, entitled "Sensory feedback and animal locomotion: perspectives from biology and biorobotics," will be held in San Francisco, CA on January 5, 2018 at the Society for Comparative Biology and Anatomy's (SICB) Annual Meeting. Through a diverse group of researchers, this symposium will highlight the relevant sensory stimuli associated with animal movement, the different strategies for encoding stimuli, and the intersection between biology, engineering, and robotics. This gathering will catalyze new interdisciplinary collaborations between biologists and engineers and identify future research directions for the development of sensory control systems that can be implemented in robotics. Additionally, this symposium will include a mentorship program that enables six Native American undergraduate students to attend their first scientific meeting. Six graduate students/postdocs, who also belong to underrepresented groups in STEM, will act as mentors to the Native American students. The mentorship program will ensure that this meeting is an enriching experience for the undergraduates and will expose them to a variety of scientific disciplines, prospective graduate school mentors, and scientific career paths.The locomotor appendages of animals, from insect wings to tetrapod limbs, perform dual roles as sensors and propulsors, and sensory feedback is critical to the motor performance of animals. An interdisciplinary symposium, "Sensory feedback and animal locomotion: perspectives from biology and biorobotics," will be held at the Society for Comparative Biology and Anatomy's (SICB) Annual Meeting. Robotic appendages that are integrated with sensors will also rely on sensory feedback to adjust output signals. While engineers often look to biology for solutions to problems experienced in robotic movement, biologists too must engage with engineers to utilize computer and robotic models to help answer questions on the role of sensory feedback in generating effective movement. Through a group of scientists spanning a range of disciplines and career stages, the symposium will demonstrate biological principles for mechanosensory feedback of propulsor movement that could be implemented in engineered devices and foster the development of future research programs aimed to further integrate the fields of engineering and robotics with more traditional biology. Further, a successful mentorship program, in collaboration with the Native Explorers Program, will be reestablished to bring Native American undergraduates to participate in their first scientific meeting. Each Native American undergraduate will be paired with a mentor to ensure an enriching and positive experience. This program will offer a unique opportunity for Native American students that would otherwise not experience interactions with a diverse group of researchers of different experience levels, types of institutions, research disciplines and racial backgrounds.