Neuro-Robotics Systems

Micro and nanorobotic systems for the manipulation and assembly of small artificial or natural components will provide unprecedented knowledge and tools to incorporate them in electronic devices or in mechanical structures. Micro and nanorobots having the ability to interact intimately with biological entities are expected to lead to new scientific understanding and to new tools for such fundamental tasks as detection and treatment of disease.

Robotics and automation at small spatial scales open the door to many applications, but it also raises new scientific challenges as phenomena at the micro and nanoscale are often markedly different from their macroscopic counterparts, and this has strong implications on robotic strategies, software and hardware for manipulation, locomotion, sensing and control. Micro and nanorobotics is a multidisciplinary field at the frontier of many different scientific domains, including physics, chemistry, material sciences, robotics and control. Many questions remain open when the scale goes down to micro and nanometer. We still lack precise models of the behavior of micro and nanorobots. Sensing remains a challenge when the spatial resolution or the force range drops. These highly dynamic and highly non-linear systems necessitate the development of specific control strategies. Fabrication of micrometer size robots is still not fully mastered… and here are only a few examples of open questions raised by robotics and automation at small spatial scales.

The Technical Committee for Micro/Nano Robotics and Automation will bring together scientists and engineers from different backgrounds and disciplines, and will provide a set of opportunities to discuss open issues and imagine the next generation of robots for small spatial scales.

• NRS is current state-of-the-art research as branch of neuroscience within robotics
• NRS is a design approach mainly aimed at the fusion of neuroscience and robotics to develop advanced human centered robotic SW/HW.

The mission of the neuro-robotics TC is to provide an entity within the IEEE for neuro-robotics researchers, engineers and practitioners interested to promote neuro-robotics as a research domain.

• Biomimetic context awareness, expectation and intention understanding in neuro-robotics systems
• Multimodal sensor fusion and communication, feedback and actuation in neuro-robotics systems
• Knowledge representation, information acquisition, and decision making in neuro-robotics systems
• Systematic approach of brain-inspired modelling, learning of sensory and motor systems
• Locomotion and manipulation in biological and robot systems
• Artificial intelligence for bio-mechatronics/robot systems
• Affective and cognitive sciences for bio-mechatronics, augmented cognitive robot systems, computational intelligence, neuro-mechanical systems
• Brain-inspired control of rehabilitation robot system, medical healthcare robot system, prosthetic device system, assistive robot system, wearable robot system for personal cooperative assistance.
• Various intelligent learning and skill transfer system for multiple neuro-robotic systems

For more information, please visit the official website: http://www.ieee-nrs.org/