Bio Robotics

Scope

The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Technical Committee (TC) on BioRobotics was formed with the goal of providing a forum and dissemination mechanism for the interaction between biologist and roboticist and to present biology as a learning tool for novel engineering paradigms.

Activities

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BioRob Lunch with Leaders

With the travel disruptions of the last few years, many of our trainees have not benefited from the same exposure to in-person networking opportunities as in the past. To help “newcomers” network in our research community, the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on BioRobotics is supporting a “Newcomers and Leaders Lunch” event held alongside the main program of the IEEE BioRob 2024 conference. The main goals of the event are to foster connection between trainees and leaders in the field of biorobotics, to help trainees connect with peers in the community, and to help trainees learn how they can integrate and contribute to the IEEE RAS/EMBS community.

This event was held on Monday, September, 2nd, 12:30-1:30pm, at the BioRob 2024 conference

LEADERS IN ATTENDANCE:

Marcia K. O’Malley (Rice University, USA)

Etienne Burdet (Imperial College London, UK)

Pietro Valdastri (University of Leeds, UK)

Coming activities

List of activities during past three years

  • ICRA 2021 Workshop proposal on “micro-nano swarm robotics”
We provided the support of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee on Biorobotics to the proposed workshop entitled “Bio-inspired robotics and their application in biology” held to the ICRA 2021 conference and co-organised by Sabine Hauert, et al. The workshop focused on micro-nano robotics, swarm engineering, and potential applications.

 

  • IROS 2020 Workshop proposal on “Robotics-inspired biology”
We provided the support of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee on Biorobotics to the proposed workshop entitled “Robotics-Inspired Biology” held to the IROS 2020 conference and co-organised by Nick Gravish,  Chen Li,  Hamid Marvi,  Henry Astley, Kaushik Jayaram.The goal of this workshop was to facilitate interactions between these two communities—bio-inspired roboticists and robotics-enabled biologists. In particular, the focus was to identify how roboticists who develop bio-inspired devices may shape new directions of biological inquiry.

 

  • MIRAI 2.0 Research and Innovation Week 2021 (Jorge Solis)

The MIRAI 2.0 Research and Innovation Week 2021 was held online and co-organized by Gothenburg University and Nagoya University, from the 7th to 11th of June 2021. Prof. Jorge Solis delivered a poster presentation on possible applications on biologically- inspired approaches in complex systems.

 

  • MIRAI 2.0 Sustainability Workshop (Jorge Solis)

The MIRAI 2.0 Sustainability workshop was held online and co-organized by Karlstad University and Hiroshima University, from the 28th to 30th of September 2021. Prof. Jorge Solis delivered a presentation on possible applications on biologically- inspired control approaches in complex systems.

 

  •  Robotics REU Advisor (Jun Ueda)

REU Site:  Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering (SURE), National Science Foundation #1263049

 

  • Mentoring Faculty (Jun Ueda)

NRT: Accessibility, Rehabilitation, and Movement Science (ARMS): An Interdisciplinary Traineeship Program in Human-Centered Robotics, National Science Foundation #1545287

Proposed activities

  • IROS 2022 Workshop proposal on “Bio-Inspired Solutions for Underwater Robotics”. Organizers: Donato Romano, Zhibin Song, Paolo Dario and Cesare Stefanini.
  • IROS 2022 Workshop proposal on “Bio-inspired robotics and their application in biology”. Organizers: Liang Li, Wei Wang and Xiwang Dong

Publications

  • E. Ozkaya, E. Triolo, F. Rezayaraghi, J. Abderezaei, A. Pionteck, W. Meinhold, J. Ueda, M. Eriten, K. Hong, L. Fleysher, P. Kennedy, C. Johnson, Y. Yang, M. Kurt, Brain-Mimicking Phantom for Biomechanical Validation of Motion Sensitive MR Imaging Techniques, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, Volume 122, October 2021
  • Daniel E. Martinez, Waiman Meinhold, John Oshinski, Ai-Ping Hu, and Jun Ueda, Super Resolution for Improved Positioning of an MRI-Guided Spinal Cellular Injection Robot, Journal of Medical Robotics Research, April 2021,
  • Yingxin Qiu, Mengnan Wu, Lena Ting, and Jun Ueda, “Maximum Spectral Flatness Control of a Manipulandum for Human Motor System Identification,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) Volume 6, Issue 2, April 2021
  • Waiman Meinhold, Yoshinori Yamakawa, Hiroshi Honda, Takayuki Mori, Shin-ichi Izumi and Jun Ueda, A smart tendon hammer system for remote neurological examination, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Robotics, Special issue on Autonomous Systems and AI for Nonurgent/Nonemergent Healthcare Delivery During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic, 8:28,2021
  • Waiman Meinhold, Daniel E. Martinez, John Oshinski, Ai-Ping Hu, Jun Ueda, A direct drive parallel plane piezoelectric needle positioning robot for MRI guided intraspinal injection, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 68, Issue 3, March 2021 (published online in September 2020).
  • Laura D Weinstock, James E Forsmo, Alexis Wilkinson, Jun Ueda, Levi B Wood, Experimental control of macrophage pro-inflammatory dynamics using predictive models, Frontiers Bioengineering and Biotechnology, July 13th, 2020
  • Euisun Kim, Waiman Meinhold, Minoru Shinohara, Jun Ueda, Statistical Inter-stimulus Interval Window Estimation for Transient Neuromodulation via Paired Mechanical and Brain Stimulation, Frontiers in NeuroRobotics, Volume 14, 2020
  • Nayef E. Ahmar, Jun Ueda, Minoru Shinohara, Anti-phase co-contraction practice attenuates in-phase oscillations between antagonistic muscles as assessed with phase coherence, Experimental Brain Research, 238(1), 63-72, 2020.
  • Solis, J., Karlsson, C., Johansson, S., Richardsson, K. (2021). Towards the Development of an Automatic UAV-Based Indoor Environmental Monitoring System: Distributed Off-Board Control System for a Micro Aerial Vehicle, Applied Sciences, Special Issue on Modelling and Control of Mechatronic and Robotic Systems, Vol. 11(5), 2347
  • Oka, T., Solis, J., Lindborg, A.L., Matsuura, D., Sugahara, Y., Takeda, Y. (2020). Kineto-elasto-static Design of Underactuated Chopstick-type Gripper Mechanism for Meal-Assistance Robot, Robotics, Special Issue on Kinematics and Robot Design III, Vol. 9 (3).
  • Garcia, G., Solis, J., Takamatsu, J., Ogasawara, T. (2020). Dynamics Estimation Using an IMU in Physical Human-Robot Interaction. ICRA 2020 workshop on Unconventional Sensor in Robotics