Le professeur David Mélançon vous invite à un séminaire vendredi 1er mars 2024 sur "Distributing functionality in Soft Robots" donné par Benjamin Gorissen, professeur adjoint à KU Leuven.
- Le 1er mars 2024, de 10 h à 11 h
- J-1035, pavillon J. Armand Bombardier
- Café et viennoiserie seront offerts!
À propos du séminaire :
Conventional robots are designed using a building block approach, linking localized actuators and sensors to a battery and processing unit. This approach does not map to the field of soft robotics, where the used compliant materials are not strong enough to support a multitude of functional subsystems. Alternatively and as demonstrated in nature by the common octopus, the distribution of functionality throughout the body allows to overcome these limitations. This talk will explore the concept of functional distribution in soft inflatable robotics, harnessing structural nonlinearities to achieve this. By incorporating structures that snap, buckle or bifurcate, a rich design space is formed that allows us to create completely soft systems that can jump, walk, or even play Beethoven with only one pressure supply tube. By doing this we can offload computation and energy storage to the robot’s body, and create truly multifunctional, lean systems.
À propos du professeur Benjamin Gorissen :
Benjamin Gorissen did his Ph.D research on micro soft robotic actuators at KU Leuven in Belgium and in part at Ritsumeikan University, Japan. As a postdoctoral researcher, first at KU Leuven and afterwards at Harvard University, he focused on nonlinear and deployable mechanisms. In 2021, he worked at Facebook Reality Labs before becoming a faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at KU Leuven in 2022. He currently leads the Soft Robotics Research group at KU Leuven, focusing on harnessing nonlinearities in soft systems, and is partially funded through an ERC starting grant, called ILUMIS.
