BioInspired! So What? Now What!

Thursday, September 29, 2016 09:15 AM - 01:00 PM
Convention Center - - Room W315 A

Organizers

• Marianne Alleyne  University of Illinois
• Catherine Loudon  University of California

Index Terms

• Insect Biomechanics and Insect-Inspired Robotics

Papers:

• 09:15 AM  2812 Insect-inspired robots as tools for robot-inspired biology Robert Wood (rjwood [at] seas [dot] harvard [dot] edu), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

• 09:45 AM  2813 Cockroaches inspire exoskeletal shells and wings that help robots traverse obstacles and self-right Chen Li (chen [dot] li [at] jhu [dot] edu)¹, Ronald S. Fearing² and Robert J. Full², ¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD,²University of California, Berkeley, CA

• 10:00 AM  2814 Physical insecticides — bioinspiration from the action of bean leaves on bed bugs Catherine Loudon (cloudon [at] uci [dot] edu), University of California, Irvine, CA

• 10:15 AM  Break

• 10:30 AM  2815 Linking protein-catechol-chitin interactions to the physical properties of beetle elytral cuticle, a multicomponent biomaterial M. Coleman Vaclaw¹, Patricia A. Sprouse¹, Neal Dittmer², Michael Kanost², Prajnaparamita Dhar¹ and Stevin Gehrke (shgehrke [at] ku [dot] edu)¹, ¹University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, ²Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

• 10:45 AM  2816 Antimicrobial and superhydrophobic properties of insect wings as inspiration for nanostructured engineered materials Marianne Alleyne (vanlaarh [at] life [dot] illinois [dot] edu)¹, Nenad Miljkovic¹, Junho Oh¹, Nicole Leahy¹ and Donald M. Cropek², ¹University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, ²U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Champaign, IL

• 11:00 AM  2817 Insights from developmental studies into the evolution of spider silk glands and the engineering of artificial silk production Cheryl Hayashi and Crystal Chaw (ro [dot] chaw [at] ucr [dot] edu), University of California, Riverside, CA

• 11:15 AM  2818 The multi-linked mechanism of active ventilation in beetles: An inspiration for novel flow control Hodjat Pendar (hpendar [at] vt [dot] edu) and John Socha, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA

• 11:30 AM  2819 Nature inspired flow sensing: The long road from ecomechanics to microsensors Jérôme Casas (jerome [dot] casas [at] univ-tours [dot] fr)¹ and Gijs Krijnen², ¹University of Tours, Tours, France, ²University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands

• 11:45 AM  2820 Conception of an active amplification mechanism in infrared receptors of pyrophilous Melanophila beetles Helmut Schmitz (h [dot] schmitz [at] uni-bonn [dot] de), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

• 12:00 PM  2821 Cognitive challenges of biologically inspired design Ashok Goel (goel [at] cc [dot] gatech [dot] edu), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

• 12:15 PM  2822 From social insects to smart, flexible, adaptive teams of robots: The biomechanics of group decision-making Theodore Pavlic (tpavlic [at] asu [dot] edu), Sara Walker and Stephen Pratt, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

• 12:30 PM  2823 Collective behavior in ants and engineered networks Deborah M. Gordon (dmgordon [at] stanford [dot] edu), Stanford University, Stanford, CA