Workshop on "Robotics Materials"
Abstract
The objective of this workshop is to delineate open scientific questions pertinent to future multifunctional materials that tightly integrate sensing, computation, actuation, and communication. To approach the objective, the workshop will address the following questions and tasks in breakout sessions: Breakout Session 1: (1) What is the role of structure in control and actuation? (2) How might we achieve tight coupling between perception and behavior? (3) Should we design systems with as much complexity and redundancy as seen in nature? Breakout Session 2: (1) What research approaches would transform this field? (2) What is needed that is not present but possible? (3) Are there new or emerging tools that will help transform our understanding? Breakout Session 3: (1) What are the enabling conditions for theory, computation, experimental approaches, and model systems? (2) Given the challenges of integration, should we instead be focusing more on control, machine learning, and physics-based simulation? Breakout Session 4: Identify a focused multidisciplinary research agenda topic that has definable goals and outcomes that can be achieved in 3Ð5 years. Breakout Session 5: How might this research agenda benefit other fields of research/science/engineering? Brainstorm the title of a Nature cover article on bio-inspired soft robotics.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Feb 06, 2017
- Source ID
- W911NF1610476
Entities
People
- Nikolaus Correll
Organizations
- Army Contracting Command
- United States Army
- University of Colorado Boulder