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IRIM brings together robotics researchers from across campus\u2014spanning colleges, departments and individual labs\u2014to support and connect research initiatives, enhance educational programs and foster advances for the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2011\/08\/03\/supporting-president-s-national-robotics-initiative\u0022\u003ENational Robotics Initiative (NRI)\u003C\/a\u003E, first announced by President Obama in 2011, and officially established in 2012.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is one of the nation\u2019s premier robotics research universities with more than 60\u0026nbsp;faculty members and researchers developing innovative solutions for manufacturing, healthcare and first responder security, as well as for a variety of other critical areas including defense and service applications. Georgia Tech also offers the first fully integrated multidisciplinary\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/education\/phd\u0022\u003EPh.D. program in robotics\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to students enrolled in a participating home school in the College of Computing or the College of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn September, the National Science Foundation awarded more than $2 million to fund projects led by Georgia Tech researchers as part of the NRI program. Robotics initiatives across campus attract approximately $35 million annually in sponsored research from government agencies and industry partners.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIRIM will create new collaborative opportunities for faculty, strengthen partnerships with industry and government and maximize the societal impact of the transformative robotics research being conducted at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs part of its core vision and mission, IRIM enables the assembly of strong, innovative, multi-disciplinary teams to solve contemporary and future societal grand challenges.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech has been making breakthrough discoveries in robotics for more than a decade, and our early successes may be attributed to the grassroots efforts of our dynamic faculty and researchers,\u201d said KUKA Chair of Robotics\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/team\/faculty\/christensen\u0022\u003EHenrik I. Christensen\u003C\/a\u003E, a Distinguished Professor in the College of Computing and the founding executive director of IRIM. \u201cAs an Interdisciplinary Research Institute, robotics research at Georgia Tech will be invigorated and supported through our continued work as a unified group of robotics leaders.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIRIM engages the strengths of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.research.gatech.edu\/institutes\u0022\u003Eother IRIs\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and centers, including the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI),\u0026nbsp;for collaborations on projects\u0026nbsp;where robotics and autonomous systems have applicability in manufacturing, health care, and national security.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe newest IRI at Georgia Tech leverages growing expertise in robotics across the Institute,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/director-mcgrath\u0022\u003ERobert McGrath\u003C\/a\u003E, senior vice president and director of GTRI. \u201cBy collaborating through the newly-established IRIM, it will be easier for our research sponsors, both private industry and government, to work with us and access that expertise. I\u0027m confident that IRIM will make us more proficient in working together for the benefit of our students, researchers and sponsors.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to GTRI, current robotics researchers represent a significant presence on campus in the Colleges of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EComputing\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EEngineering\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cos.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EScience\u003C\/a\u003E. Other researchers hail from the College of Architecture and the Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI2).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are proud in the College of Computing to have played a central role in establishing Georgia Tech robotics as an international leader, and we are thrilled that this critical field of research now occupies a position of greater visibility and coordination across the entire campus,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/zvi-galil\u0022\u003EZvi Galil\u003C\/a\u003E, the John P. Imlay Jr. Dean of Computing. \u201cLike many research areas in computing, cutting-edge work in robotics depends on contributions from multiple disciplines, and the new Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines will serve as an effective platform to inspire, harmonize and amplify the robotics research ongoing in labs across Georgia Tech.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough collaborations with faculty across campus and industry partnerships, IRIM leverages Georgia Tech\u2019s resources to address evolving societal needs, such as improving surgical precision and enabling aging in place. The National Robotics Initiative identifies many of these needs as critical, including increasing manufacturing productivity and improving food safety.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn interdisciplinary focus and innovative approach are necessary to create solutions for these and other needs facing society today and in the future.\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/content\/dean-engineering-0\u0022\u003EGary S. May\u003C\/a\u003E, dean of the College of Engineering. \u201cOur engineering faculty members are some of the best in the world. They are making important advances in healthcare, manufacturing and personal robotics, to name a few. I am confident their contributions to IRIM will help secure Georgia Tech\u2019s reputation as a leader in this critical technological domain.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERobots and intelligent machines also are playing increasingly pivotal roles in Georgia Tech research programs in the sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are making great strides in learning how robotics technology can enrich the lives of the elderly, reveal and harness mechanisms of animal locomotion, empower mobility among injured people and explore the oceans and planets,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cos.gatech.edu\/people\/paul-goldbart\u0022\u003EPaul Goldbart\u003C\/a\u003E, dean of the College of Sciences. \u201cThis research is of great interest in many spheres, and we are confident that increased support for it from industry will result from our partnership with the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIRIM\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/leadership\u0022\u003Efounding associate directors\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;represent three campus units, amplifying the cross-campus collaboration envisioned for the new robotics IRI:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAssociate Director of Research:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Ayanna M. 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The international event is focused on trends and technology for humanoids in the real world. The three-day conference, from October 15-17, features demonstrations, lectures and tours of Georgia Tech robot labs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Assistant Professor Mike Stilman is the general chair for the conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is a very exciting event both for the history of robotics worldwide and for education in engineering for all kids excited about new technology,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe demonstrations include Rethink Robotics\u2019 Baxter robot, NAO from Aldebaran and South Korea\u2019s Robotis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s Ronald Arkin, a Regents Professor in the College of Computing, is hosting one of the conference\u2019s three plenary sessions. 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It depends.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology finds that older and younger people have varying preferences about what they would want a personal robot to look like. And they change their minds based on what the robot is supposed to do.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EParticipants were shown a series of photos portraying either robotic, human or mixed human-robot faces and were asked to select the one that they would prefer for their robot\u2019s appearance. Most college-aged adults in the study preferred a robotic appearance, although they were also generally open to the others. However, nearly 60 percent of older adults said they would want a robot with a human face, and only 6 percent of them chose one with a mixed human-robot appearance. But the preferences in both age groups wavered a bit when participants were told the robot was assisting with personal care, chores, social interaction or for helping to make decisions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe found that participants, both younger and older, will assign emotional traits to a robot based on its face, which will determine what they are most comfortable interacting with,\u201d said Akanksha Prakash, a School of Psychology graduate student who led the study. \u201cAs a result, preferences for robotic appearance varied across tasks.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPreferences were less strong for helping with chores, although the majority of older and younger participants chose a robot with a robotic face. But for decision-making tasks, such as getting advice for where to invest money, younger participants tended to select a mixed human-robot appearance. A robotic face was their least favored choice for this task. Older adults generally preferred a human face.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThose who selected a mixed face perceived the robot as more intelligent, smarter or wiser than one with a \u2018cute\u2019 robotic face. Perceived intelligence in appearance was an important assessment criterion for receiving assistance with decision-making tasks,\u201d said Prakash. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPersonal care tasks such as bathing provoked the most divisive preferences within both age groups. Those who chose a human face did so because they associated the robot with human-like care capabilities \u2013 such as nursing \u0026shy;\u2013 and trustworthy traits. Many others didn\u2019t want anything looking like a human to bathe them due to the private nature of the task.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSometimes personal care can get pretty involved. Many participants said they would rather have an impersonal looking creature caring for their personal needs,\u201d Prakash said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the final category, assistance with social tasks, both age groups preferred a human face for the assistive robot.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBased on this early research, Prakash says that if a robot is designed to help only with a specific task, its appearance should be aligned with the attributes of the task. For instance, if the robot is designed to specifically assist the user with critical decisions, the robot should be given an intelligent look instead of a funny demeanor. However, \u0026nbsp;if the robot is tasked with a variety of jobs in the home, allowing for appearance customizability might be the best option. She admits that may not be possible. If not, a safer bet would be to design robots with some human-like features but making certain that the overall aesthetics are not discomforting or repulsive to the majority of end users. Prakash plans to expand the study to other age groups and more diverse educational backgrounds.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe findings will be presented this week at the \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:http:\/\/www.hfes.org\/web\/hfesmeetings\/2013annualmeeting.html\u0022\u003EHuman Factors and Ergonomics International Annual Meeting\u003C\/a\u003E in San Diego.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrakash is advised by Professor Wendy Rogers, who leads Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:http:\/\/hfaging.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EHuman Factors and Aging Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E. The lab\u2019s previous research explored the willingness of older adults to \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/newsroom\/release.html%3Fnid=165041\u0022\u003Eaccept robots into their daily lives\u003C\/a\u003E. 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The principal investigators (PIs) and co-PIs for these projects represent three of the Institute\u2019s six colleges, illustrating the interdisciplinary collaboration that distinguishes Tech as a leader in the national initiative to accelerate the development and use of robots in the United States.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech faculty have a strong tradition of exceptional research and a robust interdisciplinary focus,\u201d said Henrik Christensen, KUKA Chair of Robotics and director of the Robotics \u0026amp; Intelligent Machines Center (RIM), the flagship for the Institute\u2019s robotics efforts. \u201cI\u2019m extremely proud of and continually impressed with the contributions our researchers make to advancing robotics.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThree projects received NSF funding through the National Robotics Initiative program, which was unveiled by President Obama in June 2011, and is led by NSF with support from NASA, the National Institutes of Health, and the United States Department of Agriculture. 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He will be presented with this honor on October 5 at the Institute, where he will deliver a lecture to the KTH community.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETogether with KTH President Peter Gudmundson, a board of alumni, students, and faculty makes the selection for this honor. Dr. Egerstedt graduated with his M.S. degree in engineering physics and a Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from KTH in 1996 and 2000, respectively, and he earned his B.A. degree in philosophy from Stockholm University in 1996. \u0022This is a great honor and I\u0027m both humbled and excited about the prospect of returning to Stockholm in October to accept the award,\u0022 Dr. Egerstedt said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the nomination for this honor, Dr. Egerstedt was cited for his work in robotics and automatic control as the Schlumberger Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Tech and for his very high international research visibility. 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They\u2019re crawling toward two silver cases in the middle of the floor, but just before reaching them, they\u2019re supposed to sense the obstacles and skitter away.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe demonstration is the highlight of Egerstedt\u2019s lecture; it is the center ring of this particular circus. A professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (ECE), Egerstedt is teaching a class on robot control, and the point of the course tends to be lost if the robots in question are going rogue.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EToward the cases they go, but wait! They\u2019re sliding this way and that way. They come to halting stops or turn dizzily, and some of them don\u2019t recognize the cases at all and slam into their shiny edges. 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The goal of the DRC is to develop robots that can perform the hazardous activities associated with disaster response.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe DARPA Robotics Challenge will be the biggest show in robotics this decade and will fundamentally transform our interaction with robots,\u201d said Dr. Paul Oh, a professor in Drexel\u2019s College of Engineering and the DRC-HUBO team leader.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFollowing the critical design review, the DRC-HUBO team is one of six teams remaining in Track A \u2013the group made up of teams who are creating their own robot platform and operation software. With Drexel as the lead institution, Team DRC-HUBO is leveraging the collective knowledge and labors of engineers from Columbia University, the University of Delaware, Georgia Institute of Technology, Indiana University, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ohio State University, Purdue University, Swarthmore College and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is represented on the team by \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~mstilman\/\u0022\u003EMichael Stilman\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing. Stilman heads up Georgia Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.golems.org\/\u0022\u003EHumanoid Robotics Lab\u003C\/a\u003E, part of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ERobotics \u0026amp; Intelligent Machines Center\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmong the remaining challengers are teams from Carnegie Mellon University, the NASA \u2013 Jet Propulsion Lab, NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center, SCHAFT Inc., and Virginia Tech. In addition to DARPA\u2019s designation of the Track A competitors, the agency also announced that the first trials of the completion will be held in December.\u0026nbsp; Seven teams from Tracks B and C \u2013including one from DRC-HUBO team member WPI- who will be using a DARPA-provided robot platform called Atlas, will also compete in the trials.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe DRC-HUBO team is in the process of physically concerting its efforts for the first time, as representatives from each of the 10 team members are on Drexel\u2019s campus to collaborate throughout the summer. The team has constructed a full-scale mockup of a disaster site that will allow the robots to practice each of the eight events laid out by DARPA.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach team member is charged with programming the HUBO humanoid robot platform to perform one of the eight disaster-recovery-related tasks. In addition to serving as the central processing and troubleshooting center for the team, Drexel is also programing the robot to get into and out of a vehicle in tandem with University of Delaware researchers who are developing a way for it to drive and navigate. Engineers from Ohio State are working on a way for it to climb over rough terrain. Georgia Tech\u2019s group is programming the robot to clear debris and break through a concrete wall. At Swarthmore College, roboticists are getting the robot to open a door. Purdue and Indiana University researchers are teaming up to tackle the task of having the robot climb a ladder. Worcester Polytechnic Institute engineers are handling the valve-turning task and a group from Columbia is programming the robot to re-attach a hose.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe announcement marks the mid-point of the first phase of the 27-month challenge that began in October 2012. Phase 1 will culminate with the trials in December and the teams that advance will receive additional funding from DARPA and move into Phase 2, which will give them 12 months to refine their designs before the final head-to-head competition in December 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA multi-university team that includes Georgia Tech\u0027s Mike Stilman has been advanced to the next round of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency\u2019s Robotics Challenge.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A multi-university team that includes Georgia Tech\u0027s Mike Stilman has been advanced to the next round of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency\u2019s Robotics Challenge."}],"uid":"27174","created_gmt":"2013-07-11 14:02:56","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:34","author":"Mike Terrazas","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-07-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-07-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"690","name":"darpa"},{"id":"69541","name":"humanoid robotics"},{"id":"16551","name":"Mike Stilman"},{"id":"12239","name":"RIM"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"12919","name":"robotics \u0026 intelligent machines"},{"id":"166848","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMichael Terrazas\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["mterraza@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"221991":{"#nid":"221991","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Erin Hanson Tapped for SMART Scholarship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EErin Hanson has received a scholarship under the Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation Program, which is administered by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The program specifically supports undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in STEM disciplines and aims to increase the number of civilian scientists and engineers working at DoD laboratories.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA rising computer engineering senior, Ms. Hanson has accumulated a wealth of work experience and is very involved in extracurricular activities at Georgia Tech and in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). She has worked as a co-op student at GTRI where she helped design an algorithm to detect disease in poultry growout houses and used C++ and image processing techniques to identify the number of people riding in a vehicle on the highway. Ms. Hanson has tackled a variety of software and embedded systems challenges through her internship experiences with the U.S. Naval Academy, the Air Force Research Lab, and Boeing, and she also served as a project manager for the GTRI Robotics Team in the Vertically Integrated Projects Program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMs. Hanson\u0027s activities outside of work and the classroom include leadership roles with Women in ECE and the ECE section of the GT 1000 Freshman Seminar. 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Beyond assisting the study of locomotion in a wide range of animals, the findings could also help researchers design efficient swimming robots.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA graduate student in our group, Yang Ding, who is now at the University of Southern California, was able to develop a theory that could explain the kinematics of how this animal swims as well as the timing of the nervous system control signals,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/user\/daniel-goldman\u0022\u003EDaniel Goldman\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E at the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u201cFor animals swimming in fluids using an undulating movement, there are basic physical constraints on how they must activate their muscles. We think we have uncovered an important mechanism that governs this kind of swimming.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research was reported June 3 in the early edition of the journal \u003Cem\u003EProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u003C\/em\u003E. It was sponsored by the National Science Foundation\u2019s Physics of Living Systems program, the Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST) program of the Army Research Office, and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUndulatory locomotion is a gait in which thrust is produced in the opposite direction from a traveling wave of body bending. Because it is so commonly used by animals, this mode of locomotion has been widely used for studying the neuromechanical principles of movement.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESarah Sharpe, the paper\u2019s second author and a graduate student in Georgia Tech\u2019s Interdisciplinary Bioengineering Program, led laboratory experiments studying undulatory swimming in sandfish lizards. She used X-ray imaging to visualize how the animals swam through sand that was composed of tiny glass spheres.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the same time their swimming movements were being tracked, a set of four hair-thin electrodes implanted in the lizards\u2019 bodies were providing information on when their muscles were activated. The two information sources allowed the researchers to compare the electrical muscle activity to the lizards\u2019 body motion.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe lizards propagate a wave of muscle activations, contracting the muscles close to their heads first, then the muscles at the midpoint of their body, then their tail,\u201d said Sharpe. \u201cThey send a wave of muscle of contraction down their bodies, which creates a wave of curvature that allows them to swim. This wave of activation travels faster than the wave of curvature down the body, resulting in different timing relationships, known as phase differences, between muscle contracts and bending along the body.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESand acts like a frictional fluid as the sandfish swims through it. However, a sandfish swimming through sand is simpler to model than a fish swimming through water because the sand lacks the vortices and other complex behavior of water \u2013 and the friction of the sand eliminates inertia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTheoretically, it is difficult to calculate all of the forces acting on a fish or an eel swimming in a real fluid,\u201d said Goldman. \u201cBut for a sandfish, you can calculate pretty much everything.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe relative simplicity of the system allowed the research team \u2013 which also included Georgia Tech professor Kurt Wiesenfeld \u2013 to develop a simple model showing how the muscle activation relates to motion. The model showed that combining synchronized torques from distant points in the lizards\u2019 bodies with local traveling torques is what creates the neuromechanical phase lag.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is one of the simplest, if not the simplest, models of swimming that reproduces the neuromechanical phase lag phenomenon,\u201d Sharpe said. \u201cAll we really had to pay attention to was the external forces acting on an animal\u2019s body. We realized that this timing relationship would emerge for any undulatory animal with distributed forces along its body. Understanding this concept can be used as the foundation to begin understanding timing patterns in all other swimmers.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe sandfish swims using a simple single-period sinusoidal wave with constant amplitude. A key finding that facilitated the model\u2019s development was that the sandfish\u2019s body is extremely flexible, allowing internal forces \u2013 body stiffness \u2013 to be ignored.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis animal turns out to be like a little limp noodle,\u201d said Goldman. \u201cHaving that result in the theory makes everything else pop out.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe model shows that the waveform used by the sandfish should allow it to swim the farthest with the least expenditure of energy. Swimming robots adopting the same waveform should therefore be able to maximize their range.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGoldman and his colleagues have been studying the sandfish, a native of the northern African desert, for more than six years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSandfish are among the champions of all sand diggers, swimmers and burrowers,\u201d said Goldman. \u201cThis lizard has provided us with an interesting entry point into swimming because its environment is surprisingly simple and behavior is simple. It turns out that this little sand-dweller may be able to tell us things about swimming more generally.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research has been supported by the National Science Foundation Physics of Living Systems (PoLS) under grants PHY-0749991 and PHY-1150760, by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory\u2019s (ARL) Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST) Program under cooperative agreement W911NF-11-1-0514, and by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award. 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The conference was held May 6-10 in Karlsruhe, Germany.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Howard and her students are affiliated with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Tech. Their team, dubbed as \u201cAngry DARwIn: Framework for Human-robot Task Collaboration on a Shared Tablet Workspace,\u201d demonstrated their robot learning from a human demonstrator how to play a game of Angry Birds. Based on Ms. Park\u2019s Ph.D. thesis work, \u201cTask Learning Policies for Collaborative Task Solving in Human-Robot Interaction,\u201d the key elements to long-term engagement during human-robot interaction are the robot\u2019s capability to learn and engage in new tasks through human demonstration and a defined workspace that provides content that both the human and robot participants can use and enjoy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe framework that the team proposed for the competition provides a case-based reasoning approach to robot learning, a human reasoning methodology that retrieves the solutions of problems observed in the past, and reuses the solutions to respond to emerging similar problems. Researchers using the framework can model their own task as tablet apps and configure the framework settings to teach the task to their robots. The framework provides tools for modeling the task policy through training the parameters for case-retrieval function that maximizes the rewards. During the demonstration, the team\u2019s robot, Angry DARwIn, was able to quickly learn the strategies to solve each level of Angry Birds after less than three or four demonstrations from the teacher. Angry DARwIn not only learns to play the game, but also picks up verbal and emotional behaviors that the human teacher demonstrates. The robot then converts the learned emotions into his own verbal and gestural primitives that merge with his task behavior. The team anticipates using Angry DARwIn as a mediator to research how social interaction emerges during human-robot interaction.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis award-winning work originated from the Human-Automation Systems Lab, led by Dr. Howard, who is the Motorola Foundation Professor in ECE. Their prize included $20,000 worth of the humanoid robot platform DARwIn-OP from ROBOTIS, robot simulator Webots Pro from Cyberbotics, and Labview Robotics Software from National Instruments.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the competition, Angry DARwIn was voted the best robot application through its promotional video and was awarded a $1,000 gift certificate from ROBOTIS. 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Among the principles is building tunnel environments that assist in moving around by limiting slips and falls, and by reducing the need for complex neural processing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmong the study\u2019s surprises was the first observation that ants in confined spaces use their antennae for locomotion as well as for sensing the environment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur hypothesis is that the ants are creating their environment in just the right way to allow them to move up and down rapidly with a minimal amount of neural control,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/user\/daniel-goldman\u0022\u003EDaniel Goldman\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and one of the paper\u2019s co-authors. \u201cThe environment allows the ants to make missteps and not suffer for them. These ants can teach us some remarkably effective tricks for maneuvering in subterranean environments.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research was reported May 20 in the early edition of the journal \u003Cem\u003EProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u003C\/em\u003E. The work was sponsored by the National Science Foundation\u2019s Physics of Living Systems program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a series of studies carried out by graduate research assistant Nick Gravish, groups of fire ants (\u003Cem\u003ESolenopsis invicta\u003C\/em\u003E) were placed into tubes of soil and allowed to dig tunnels for 20 hours. To simulate a range of environmental conditions, Gravish and postdoctoral fellow Daria Monaenkova varied the size of the soil particles from 50 microns on up to 600 microns, and also altered the moisture content from 1 to 20 percent.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile the variations in particle size and moisture content did produce changes in the volume of tunnels produced and the depth that the ants dug, the diameters of the tunnels remained constant \u2013 and comparable to the length of the creatures\u2019 own bodies: about 3.5 millimeters.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIndependent of whether the soil particles were as large as the animals\u2019 heads or whether they were fine powder, or whether the soil was damp or contained very little moisture, the tunnel size was always the same within a tight range,\u201d said Goldman. \u201cThe size of the tunnels appears to be a design principle used by the ants, something that they were controlling for.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGravish believes such a scaling effect allows the ants to make best use of their antennae, limbs and body to rapidly ascend and descend in the tunnels by interacting with the walls and limiting the range of possible missteps.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn these subterranean environments where their leg motions are certainly hindered, we see that the speeds at which these ants can run are the same,\u201d he said. \u201cThe tunnel size seems to have little, if any, effect on locomotion as defined by speed.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers used X-ray computed tomography to study tunnels the ants built in the test chambers, gathering 168 observations. They also used video tracking equipment to collect data on ants moving through tunnels made between two clear plates \u2013 much like \u201cant farms\u201d sold for children \u2013 and through a maze of glass tubes of differing diameters.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe maze was mounted on an air piston that was periodically fired, dropping the maze with a force of as much as 27 times that of gravity. The sudden movement caused about half of the ants in the tubes to lose their footing and begin to fall. That led to one of the study\u2019s most surprising findings: the creatures used their antennae to help grab onto the tube walls as they fell.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA lot of us who have studied social insects for a long time have never seen antennae used in that way,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.biology.gatech.edu\/people\/michael-goodisman\u0022\u003EMichael Goodisman\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.biology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biology\u003C\/a\u003E and one of the paper\u2019s other co-authors. \u201cIt\u2019s incredible that they catch themselves with their antennae. This is an adaptive behavior that we never would have expected.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy analyzing ants falling in the glass tubes, the researchers determined that the tube diameter played a key role in whether the animals could arrest their fall.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn future studies, the researchers plan to explore how the ants excavate their tunnel networks, which involves moving massive amounts of soil. That soil is the source of the large mounds for which fire ants are known.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile the research focused on understanding the principles behind how ants move in confined spaces, the results could have implications for future teams of small robots.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe problems that the ants face are the same kinds of problems that a digging robot working in a confined space would potentially face \u2013 the need for rapid movement, stability and safety \u2013 all with limited sensing and brain power,\u201d said Goodisman. \u201cIf we want to build machines that dig, we can build in controls like these ants have.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhy use fire ants for studying underground locomotion?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese animals dig virtually non-stop, and they are good, repeatable study subjects,\u201d Goodisman explained. \u201cAnd they are very convenient for us to study. 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But before they reach the care recipients, assistive robots will first have to be accepted by healthcare providers such as nurses and nursing assistants. Based on a Georgia Institute of Technology study, it appears that they may be welcomed with open arms depending on the tasks at hand.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMore than half of healthcare providers interviewed said that if they were offered an assistant, they preferred it to be a robotic helper rather than a human. However, they don\u2019t want robots to help with everything. They were very particular about what they wanted a robot to do, and not do. Instrumental activities of daily living (IDALs), such as helping with housework and reminding patients when to take medication, were acceptable. But activities daily living (ADL) tasks, especially those involving direct, physical interactions such as bathing, getting dressed and feeding people, were considered better for human assistants.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe findings will be presented April 27- May 2 at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/chi2013.acm.org\/\u0022\u003EACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems\u003C\/a\u003E in Paris, France.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne open question was whether healthcare providers would reject the idea of robotic assistants out of fear that the robots would replace them in the workplace,\u201d said Tracy Mitzner, one of the study\u2019s leaders and the associate director of Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hfaging.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EHuman Factors and Aging Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cThis doesn\u2019t appear to be a significant concern. In fact, the professional caregivers we interviewed viewed robots as a way to improve their jobs and the care they\u2019re able to give patients.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor instance, nurses preferred a robot assistant that could help them lift patients from a bed to a chair. \u0026nbsp;They also indicated that robotic assistants could be helpful with some medical tasks such as checking vitals. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRobots aren\u2019t being designed to eliminate people. Instead, they can help reduce physical demands and workloads,\u201d Mitzner said. \u201cHopefully, our study helps create guidelines for developers and facilitates deployment into the healthcare industry. It doesn\u2019t make sense to build robots that won\u2019t be accepted by the end user.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis study complements the lab\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/newsroom\/release.html?nid=165041\u0022\u003Eprior research\u003C\/a\u003E that found older people are generally willing to accept help from robots. Much like the current research, their preferences depended on the task. Participants said they preferred robotic help over human help for chores such as cleaning the kitchen and doing laundry. Getting dressed and suggesting medication were tasks viewed as better suited for human assistants.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo view research by other Georgia Tech faculty members at SIGCHI, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/chi.gatech.edu\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/chi.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/chi.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBased on a Georgia Institute of Technology study, it appears that the healthcare providers will welcome robots into the workplace. y may be welcomed with open arms depending on the tasks at hand.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Healthcare providers indicate, if given a choice, they would prefer a robotic assistant rather than a human."}],"uid":"27560","created_gmt":"2013-04-29 10:19:22","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:08","author":"Jason Maderer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"210011":{"id":"210011","type":"image","title":"Healthcare Providers and Robots","body":null,"created":"1449180018","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 22:00:18","changed":"1475894869","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:49","alt":"Healthcare Providers and Robots","file":{"fid":"196864","name":"medication_handoff.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/medication_handoff_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/medication_handoff_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2280272,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/medication_handoff_0.jpg?itok=l94PjZfv"}}},"media_ids":["210011"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/hfaging.gatech.edu\/","title":"Human Factors and Aging Lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/chi.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech at SIGCHI"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"2352","name":"robots"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003EMedia Relations\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-2966\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["maderer@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"210251":{"#nid":"210251","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Robots Able to Reach through Clutter with Whole-Arm Tactile Sensing","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhether reaching for a book out of a cluttered cabinet or pruning a bush in the backyard, a person\u2019s arm frequently makes contact with objects during everyday tasks. Animals do it too, when foraging for food, for example.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMuch in the same way, robots are now able to intelligently maneuver within clutter, gently making contact with objects while accomplishing a task. This new control method has wide applications, ranging from robots for search-and-rescue operations to assistive robotics for people with disabilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cUp until now, the dominant strategies for robot manipulation have discouraged contact between the robot\u2019s arm and the world,\u201d said Charlie Kemp, lead researcher and associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECoulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cInstead of avoiding contact, our approach enables the arm to make contact with objects, people and the rest of the robot while keeping forces low.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKemp, director of Georgia Tech\u2019s Healthcare Robotics Lab, along with his graduate students and researchers at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/mekabot.com\/\u0022\u003EMeka Robotics\u003C\/a\u003E, has\u0026nbsp;developed a control method that works in tandem with compliant robotic joints and whole-arm tactile sensing. This technology keeps the robot\u2019s arm flexible and gives the robot a sense of touch across its entire arm.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith their control method, Kemp\u2019s robots have performed numerous tasks, such as reaching through dense artificial foliage and a cinder block representative of environments that search-and-rescue robots can encounter.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA publication describing the research, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/intl-ijr.sagepub.com\/content\/32\/4\/458\u0022\u003E\u201cReaching in Clutter with Whole-arm Tactile Sensing\u003C\/a\u003E,\u201d appears in this month\u2019s edition of the \u003Cem\u003EInternational Journal of Robotics Research\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKemp\u0027s lab also has promising results that could impact the future of assistive robotics. They have developed tactile sensors made out of stretchable fabric that covers the entire arm of a robot. In a preliminary trial with the new control method and sensors, Henry Evans, a person with quadriplegia, used the robot to perform tasks for himself. He was able to pull a blanket over himself and grab a cloth to wipe his face, all while he was in bed at his home.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis trial was conducted as part of the Robots for Humanity project with Willow Garage. In order to ensure safety, researchers from Kemp\u2019s lab closely monitored the activities. This research has been accepted and will be presented at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwconf\/icorr2013\/\u0022\u003EInternational Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics\u003C\/a\u003E in June.\u0026nbsp;\u2028\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI think it\u2019s a good safety feature because it hardly presses against me even when I tell it to,\u201d Evans said after the trial. \u201cIt really feels safe to be close to the robot.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEvans was also impressed by how the robot\u2019s arm \u201cjust wriggles around obstacles.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKemp\u2019s research team has also released the designs and code for the sensors and controller as \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.hsi.gatech.edu\/hrl\/project_open_source_whole_arm_tactile_sensing.shtml\u0022\u003Eopen source hardware and software\u003C\/a\u003E so that researchers and hobbyists can build on the work.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research is part of an ongoing effort to create a new foundation for robotics, where contact between the robot\u2019s arm and the world is encouraged.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur belief is that this approach is the way of the future for robots,\u201d said Kemp, who is also a member of Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Robotics and Intelligent Machines\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cIt is going to allow robots to better operate in our homes, our workplaces and other complex environments.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research is funded by the DARPA Maximum Mobility and Manipulation (M3) Contract W911NF-11-1- 603. 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The arrays could help give robots a more adaptive sense of touch, provide better security in handwritten signatures and offer new ways for humans to interact with electronic devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe arrays include more than 8,000 functioning piezotronic transistors, each of which can independently produce an electronic controlling signal when placed under mechanical strain. These touch-sensitive transistors \u2013 dubbed \u201ctaxels\u201d \u2013 could provide significant improvements in resolution, sensitivity and active\/adaptive operations compared to existing techniques for tactile sensing. Their sensitivity is comparable to that of a human fingertip.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe vertically-aligned taxels operate with two-terminal transistors. Instead of a third gate terminal used by conventional transistors to control the flow of current passing through them, taxels control the current with a technique called \u201cstrain-gating.\u201d Strain-gating based on the piezotronic effect uses the electrical charges generated at the Schottky contact interface by the piezoelectric effect when the nanowires are placed under strain by the application of mechanical force.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research was reported April 25 in the journal \u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E online, at the Science Express website, and will be published in a later version of the print journal. The research has been sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Air Force (USAF), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAny mechanical motion, such as the movement of arms or the fingers of a robot, could be translated to control signals,\u201d explained \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/faculty\/zhong-lin-wang\u0022\u003EZhong Lin Wang\u003C\/a\u003E, a Regents\u2019 professor and Hightower Chair in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Materials Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E at the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u201cThis could make artificial skin smarter and more like the human skin. It would allow the skin to feel activity on the surface.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMimicking the sense of touch electronically has been challenging, and is now done by measuring changes in resistance prompted by mechanical touch. The devices developed by the Georgia Tech researchers rely on a different physical phenomenon \u2013 tiny polarization charges formed when piezoelectric materials such as zinc oxide are moved or placed under strain. In the piezotronic transistors, the piezoelectric charges control the flow of current through the wires just as gate voltages do in conventional three-terminal transistors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe technique only works in materials that have both piezoelectric and semiconducting properties. These properties are seen in nanowires and thin films created from the wurtzite and zinc blend families of materials, which includes zinc oxide, gallium nitride and cadmium sulfide.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn their laboratory, Wang and his co-authors \u2013 postdoctoral fellow Wenzhuo Wu and graduate research assistant Xiaonan Wen \u2013 fabricated arrays of 92 by 92 transistors. The researchers used a chemical growth technique at approximately 85 to 90 degrees Celsius, which allowed them to fabricate arrays of strain-gated vertical piezotronic transistors on substrates that are suitable for microelectronics applications. The transistors are made up of bundles of approximately 1,500 individual nanowires, each nanowire between 500 and 600 nanometers in diameter.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the array devices, the active strain-gated vertical piezotronic transistors are sandwiched between top and bottom electrodes made of indium tin oxide aligned in orthogonal cross-bar configurations. A thin layer of gold is deposited between the top and bottom surfaces of the zinc oxide nanowires and the top and bottom electrodes, forming Schottky contacts. A thin layer of the polymer Parylene is then coated onto the device as a moisture and corrosion barrier.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe array density is 234 pixels per inch, the resolution is better than 100 microns, and the sensors are capable of detecting pressure changes as low as 10 kilopascals \u2013 resolution comparable to that of the human skin, Wang said. The Georgia Tech researchers fabricated several hundred of the arrays during a research project that lasted nearly three years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe arrays are transparent, which could allow them to be used on touch-pads or other devices for fingerprinting. They are also flexible and foldable, expanding the range of potential uses.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmong the potential applications:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMultidimensional signature recording, in which not only the graphics of the signature would be included, but also the pressure exerted at each location during the creation of the signature, and the speed at which the signature is created.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EShape-adaptive sensing in which a change in the shape of the device is measured. This would be useful in applications such as artificial\/prosthetic skin, smart biomedical treatments and intelligent robotics in which the arrays would sense what was in contact with them.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EActive tactile sensing in which the physiological operations of mechanoreceptors of biological entities such as hair follicles or the hairs in the cochlea are emulated.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBecause the arrays would be used in real-world applications, the researchers evaluated their durability. The devices still operated after 24 hours immersed in both saline and distilled water.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFuture work will include producing the taxel arrays from single nanowires instead of bundles, and integrating the arrays onto CMOS silicon devices. Using single wires could improve the sensitivity of the arrays by at least three orders of magnitude, Wang said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is a fundamentally new technology that allows us to control electronic devices directly using mechanical agitation,\u201d Wang added. \u201cThis could be used in a broad range of areas, including robotics, MEMS, human-computer interfaces and other areas that involve mechanical deformation.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Science Foundation (NSF) under grant CMMI-0946418, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) under grant FA2386-10-1-4070, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Basic Energy Sciences under award DE-FG02-07ER46394 and the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences under grant KJCX2-YW-M13. 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The research could also help explain how animals evolved limbs \u2013 including flippers \u2013 for walking on land.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research was published April 24 in the journal \u003Cem\u003EBioinspiration \u0026amp; Biomimetics\u003C\/em\u003E. The work was supported by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Army Research Laboratory\u2019s Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST) Program, the U.S. Army Research Office, and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are looking at different ways that robots can move about on sand,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/user\/daniel-goldman\u0022\u003EDaniel Goldman\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E at the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u201cWe wanted to make a systematic study of what makes flippers useful or effective. We\u2019ve learned that the flow of the materials plays a large role in the strategy that can be used by either animals or robots.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research began in 2010 with a six-week study of hatchling loggerhead sea turtles emerging at night from nests on Jekyll Island, one of Georgia\u2019s coastal islands. The research was done in collaboration with the Georgia Sea Turtle Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENicole Mazouchova, then a graduate student in the Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.biology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biology\u003C\/a\u003E, studied the baby turtles using a trackway filled with beach sand and housed in a truck parked near the beach. She recorded kinematic and biomechanical data as the turtles moved in darkness toward an LED light that simulated the moon.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMazouchova and Goldman studied data from the 25 hatchlings, and were surprised to learn that they managed to maintain their speed regardless of the surface on which they were running.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOn soft sand, the animals move their limbs in such a way that they don\u2019t create a yielding of the material on which they\u2019re walking,\u201d said Goldman. \u201cThat means the material doesn\u2019t flow around the limbs and they don\u2019t slip. The surprising thing to us was that the turtles had comparable performance when they were running on hard ground or soft sand.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe key to maintaining performance seemed to be the ability of the hatchlings to control their wrists, allowing them to change how they used their flippers under different sand conditions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOn hard ground, their wrists locked in place, and they pivoted about a fixed arm,\u201d Goldman explained. \u201cOn soft sand, they put their flippers into the sand and the wrist would bend as they moved forward. We decided to investigate this using a robot model.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat led to development of FlipperBot, with assistance from Paul Umbanhowar, a research associate professor at Northwestern University. The robot measures about 19 centimeters in length, weighs about 970 grams, and has two flippers driven by servo-motors. Like the turtles, the robot has flexible wrists that allow variations in its movement. To move through a track bed filled with poppy seeds that simulate sand, the robot lifts its flippers up, drops them into the seeds, then moves the flippers backward to propel itself.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMazouchova, now a Ph.D. student at Temple University, studied many variations of gait and wrist position and found that the free-moving mechanical wrist also provided an advantage to the robot.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn the robot, the free wrist does provide some advantage,\u201d said Goldman. \u201cFor the most part, the wrist confers advantage for moving forward without slipping. The wrist flexibility minimizes material yielding, which disturbs less ground. The flexible wrist also allows both the robot and turtles to maintain a high angle of attack for their bodies, which reduces performance-impeding drag from belly friction.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers also noted that the robot often failed when limbs encountered material that the same limbs had already disturbed. That led them to re-examine the data collected on the hatchling turtles, some of which had also experienced difficulty walking across the soft sand.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen we saw the turtles moving poorly, they appeared to be suffering from the same failure mode that we saw in the robot,\u201d Goldman explained. \u201cWhen they interacted with materials that had been previously disturbed, they tended to lose performance.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMazouchova and Goldman then worked with Umbanhowar to model the robot\u2019s performance in an effort to predict how the turtle hatchlings should respond to different conditions. The predictions closely matched what was actually observed, closing the loop between robot and animal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe robot study allowed us to test how principles applied to the animals,\u201d Goldman said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile the results may not directly improve robot designs, what the researchers learned should contribute to a better understanding of the principles governing movement using flippers. That would be useful to the designers of robots that must swim through water and walk on land.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA multi-modal robot might need to use paddles for swimming in water, but it might also need to walk in an effective way on the beach,\u201d Goldman said. \u201cThis work can provide fundamental information on what makes flippers good or bad. This information could give robot designers clues to appendage designs and control techniques for robots moving in these environments.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research could ultimately provide clues to how turtles evolved to walk on land with appendages designed for swimming.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTo understand the mechanics of how the first terrestrial animals moved, you have to understand how their flipper-like limbs interacted with complex, yielding substrates like mud flats,\u201d said Goldman. \u201cWe don\u2019t have solid results on the evolutionary questions yet, but this certainly points to a way that we could address these issues.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research has been supported by the National Science Foundation under grant CMMI-0825480 and the Physics of Living Systems PoLS program, the U.S. Army Research Laboratory\u2019s (ARL) Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST) Program under cooperative agreement W911NF-08-2-0004, the U.S. Army Research Office (ARO) and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award. 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A quick search on YouTube will yield videos of robots dancing to Michael Jackson\u2019s Thriller, Gangnam Style, the Macarena and more.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut at the Georgia Institute of Technology, researchers are taking robots and dance to a higher level.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInstead of programming a robot to copy an existing dance such as those in the online videos, Amy LaViers, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical and computer engineering, is defining the various styles of human movement and creating algorithms to reproduce them on a humanoid robot.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat\u2019s more, LaViers has produced a robotic dance performance based on her research, called \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_6LqL3S4lDk\u0026amp;feature=youtu.be\u0022\u003E\u201cAutomaton\u003C\/a\u003E,\u201d in which a Nao robot and professional dancers explore the notion of \u201cautomatic style.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe show debuts at 8 p.m. on April 6 in the lower atrium of the G. Wayne Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons. A second showing will be held at 5 p.m. on April 13, also in Clough Commons\u2019 lower atrium, as part of the 2013 TechArts Festival.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are working with such a highly articulated robot that can do so many cool things, yet there are many ways he is limited too,\u201d \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.prism.gatech.edu\/~alaviers3\/\u0022\u003ELaViers\u003C\/a\u003E said. \u201cI do play with that idea of: What can the robot do, and what can the people do? Where are the differences and where are the similarities?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELaViers\u0027 work exemplifies the intersection of engineering and dance, and could be applied to make robots more useful in everyday life, said \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/users.ece.gatech.edu\/~magnus\/\u0022\u003EMagnus Egerstedt\u003C\/a\u003E, professor of electrical and computer engineering and LaViers\u0027 faculty advisor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen robots are transitioning out of the manufacturing floor and into homes, becoming co-workers instead of tools, they need to understand to a certain degree what it means to be human,\u201d Egerstedt said. \u201cThey need to move in a style that makes sense to people, so that\u2019s why we started thinking about how you quantify style.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA dancer for most of her life, LaViers thought to combine dance with engineering during her undergraduate senior project at Princeton University. She saw a natural overlap between choreography, an arrangement of steps, and robotic algorithms, an engineering tool that plans robotic movement.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERobotic movements tend to be stiff and unnatural, but LaViers believes robots should have a range of quality of movement. To achieve this, she is developing quantitative tools that explain what differentiates movements using dance theorist Rudolf Laban\u2019s notion of quality.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELaViers also examines the basic poses and movements that define a style to quantify differences between genres of movement. What is the difference, for instance, between doing a disco dance and performing ballet? Using a computer program she developed for her thesis, she encodes that information so it can be reproduced on robots. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cUnderstanding how humans move is key to developing better techniques and applications to make robots move in a way that humans can relate to. \u2018Style\u2019 is part of this \u2013 particularly in the arts,\u201d LaViers said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELaViers\u2019 research fits into the overall objective of Egerstedt\u2019s lab, the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gritslab.gatech.edu\/home\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems (GRITS) \u003C\/a\u003Elab.\u0026nbsp; The lab aims to produce robotic algorithms that endow robots of all kinds with desirable behavior.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHaving algorithms that mimic human movement in a high-level way could advance the use of robots in real-world settings.\u0026nbsp; For example, it may enable caregiving robots to have more comforting movement that is less intimidating to patients. Style-based measurements may also provide better feedback to patients recovering from physical disabilities or injuries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the \u201cAutomaton\u201d piece, LaViers presents choreography generated from the framework in her thesis that is performed by human dancers and automated on the humanoid robot. After the performance, audience members will have a chance to give feedback on their impressions of the movement.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI hope the audience thinks of movement and programmed objects a little bit differently after seeing the show,\u201d LaViers said. \u201cI also hope it brings up ideas of technology in our lives today and in the future, when robots may be more commonplace.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EInstead of programming a robot to copy an existing dance such as those in the online videos, Amy LaViers, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical and computer engineering, is defining the various styles of human movement and creating algorithms to reproduce them on a humanoid robot.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Amy LaViers, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical and computer engineering, is defining the various styles of human movement and creating algorithms to reproduce them on a humanoid robot."}],"uid":"27462","created_gmt":"2013-04-01 13:54:42","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:59","author":"Liz Klipp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"203441":{"id":"203441","type":"image","title":"Amy LaViers","body":null,"created":"1449179952","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:59:12","changed":"1475894859","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:39","alt":"Amy LaViers","file":{"fid":"196644","name":"automaton3.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/automaton3_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/automaton3_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1418092,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/automaton3_0.jpg?itok=0sOLoQ4U"}},"203451":{"id":"203451","type":"image","title":"Automaton - 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The students are paired with both a faculty member and a graduate student mentor to undertake research projects in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cos.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, and the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/mrsec.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdding a robotics component to the SURE program is important not only to diversify research options for students but is also timely as the strategic importance of robotics and automation technologies to the U.S. economy continues to increase.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHoward says, \u201cThe push of robotics, as it moves from traditional industrial settings, into public spaces and homes across the world opens up extensive new research opportunities in important economic areas such as healthcare, education, and entertainment.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EScheduled to launch in May 2014, the robotics REU program will allow students to share in meeting the challenges of this promising new robotics domain and fully reap the rewards of being trained in this interdisciplinary field.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a result of the new program, the College of Computing (CoC) will join the other three units currently overseeing SURE-related research projects. Eight professors who are faculty members in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ERobotics \u0026amp; Intelligent Machines Center (RIM)\u003C\/a\u003E and hail from both the College of Computing and the College of Engineering, will serve as the initial advisors for the robotics REU program: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=135\u0022\u003EAyanna Howard\u003C\/a\u003E (ECE), \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/charles-isbell-jr\u0022\u003ECharles Isbell\u003C\/a\u003E (CoC), \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/facultystaff\/faculty_record.php?id=104\u0022\u003ECharlie Kemp\u003C\/a\u003E (BME), \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/mike-stilman\u0022\u003EMike Stilman\u003C\/a\u003E (CoC), \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/andrea-thomaz\u0022\u003EAndrea Thomaz\u003C\/a\u003E (CoC), \u003Ca 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Providing equations to describe and predict this type of movement \u2013 comparable to what has been done to predict the motion of animals and vehicles through the air or water \u2013 could allow designers to optimize legged robots operating in complex environments for search-and-rescue missions, space exploration or other tasks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe now have the tools to understand the movement of legged vehicles over loose sand in the same way that scientists and engineers have had tools to understand aerodynamics and hydrodynamics,\u201d said Daniel Goldman, a professor in the School of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u201cWe are at the beginning of tools that will allow us to do the design and simulation of legged robots to not only predict their performance, but also to optimize designs and allow us to create new concepts.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research behind \u201cterradynamics\u201d was described in the March 22 issue of the journal \u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E. The research was supported by the National Science Foundation Physics of Living Systems program, the Army Research Office, the Army Research Laboratory, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science of the University of California, Berkeley.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERobots such as the Mars Rover have depended on wheels for moving in complex environments such as sand and rocky terrain. Robots envisioned for autonomous search-and-rescue missions also rely on wheels, but as the vehicles become smaller, designers may need to examine alternative means of locomotion, Goldman said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EExisting techniques for describing locomotion on surfaces are complex and can\u2019t take into account the intrusion of legs into a granular surface. To improve and simplify the understanding, Goldman and collaborators Chen Li and Tingnan Zhang examined the motion of a small legged robot as it moved on granular media. Using a 3-D printer, they created legs in a variety of shapes and used them to study how different configurations affected the robot\u2019s speed along a track bed. They then measured granular force laws from experiments to predict forces on legs, and created simulation to predict the robot\u2019s motion.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe key insight, according to Goldman, was that the forces applied to independent elements of the robot legs could be simply summed together to provide a reasonably accurate measure of the net force on a robot moving through granular media. That technique, known as linear superposition, worked surprisingly well for legs moving in diverse kinds of granular media.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe discovered that the force laws affecting this motion are generic in a diversity of granular media, including poppy seeds, glass beads and natural sand,\u201d said Li, who is now a Miller postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. \u201cBased on this generalization, we developed a practical procedure for non-specialists to easily apply terradynamics in their own studies using just a single force measurement made with simple equipment they can buy off the shelf, such as a penetrometer.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more complicated granular materials, although the terradynamics approach still worked well, an additional factor \u2013 perhaps the degree to which particles resemble a sphere \u2013 may be required to describe the forces with equivalent accuracy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeyond understanding the basic physics principles involved, the researchers also learned that convex legs made in the shape of the letter \u201cC\u201d worked better than other variations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs long as the legs are convex, the robot generates large lift and small body drag, and thus can run fast,\u201d Goldman said. \u201cWhen the limb shape was changed to flat or concave, the performance dropped. This information is important for optimizing the energy efficiency of legged robots.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAerodynamic designers have long used a series of equations known as Navier-Stokes to describe the movement of vehicles through the air. Similarly, these equations also allow hydrodynamics designers to know how submarines and other vehicles move through water.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTerradynamics\u201d could provide designers with an efficient technique for understanding motion through media that flows around legs of terrestrial animals and robots.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cUsing terradynamics, our simulation is not only as accurate as the established discrete element method (DEM) simulation, but also much more computationally efficient,\u201d said Zhang, who is a graduate student in Goldman\u2019s laboratory. \u201cFor example, to simulate one second of robot locomotion on a granular bed of five million poppy seeds takes the DEM simulation a month using computers in our lab. Using terradynamics, the simulation takes only 10 seconds.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe six-legged experimental robot was just 13 centimeters long and weighed about 150 grams. Robots of that size could be used in the future for search-and-rescue missions, or to scout out unknown environments such as the surface of Mars. They could also provide biologists with a better understanding of how animals such as sand lizards run and kangaroo rats hop on granular media.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFrom a biological perspective, this opens up a new area,\u201d said Goldman, who has studied a variety of animals to learn how their locomotion may assist robot designers. \u201cThese are the kinds of tools that can help understand why lizards have feet and bodies of certain shapes. The problems associated with movement in sandy environments are as important to many animals as they are to robots.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeyond optimizing the design of future small robots, the work could also lead to a better understanding of the complex environment through which they will have to move.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe think that the kind of approach we are taking allows us to ask questions about the physics of granular materials that no one has asked before,\u201d Goldman added. \u201cThis may reveal new features of granular materials to help us create more comprehensive models and theories of motion. We are now beginning to get the rules of how vehicles move through these materials.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research was supported by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the Army Research Laboratory Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology Collaborative Technology Alliance (CTA W911NF-08-2-004), the Army Research Office (W911NF-11-1-0514), the National Science Foundation (NSF) Physics of Living Systems program (PHY-1150760) and the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Any conclusions are those of the principal investigators, and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Army Research Laboratory, the Army Research Office or the NSF.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECITATION\u003C\/strong\u003E: Chen Li, Tingnan Zhang, Daniel I. 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years.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat is the message Henrik Christensen, Georgia Tech\u2019s KUKA Chair of Robotics in the College of Computing, will bring to the Congressional Robotics Caucus on March 20 as he presents \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics-vo.us\/sites\/default\/files\/2013%20Robotics%20Roadmap-rs.pdf\u0022\u003EA Roadmap for U.S. Robotics: From Internet to Robotics - 2013 Edition\u003C\/a\u003E.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe report, which outlines the progress of robots in multiple industries over the last five years and identifies goals for the coming decade, highlights robotics as a key economic enabler with the potential to transform U.S. society.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRobots have the potential to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S., to improve our quality of life and to make sure our first responders and warfighters stay safe,\u201d said Christensen, who is also the coordinator of Robotics Virtual Organization (VO), sponsor of the report. \u201cWe need to address the technical and educational needs so we can continue to be leaders in developing and using robotic technology.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA group of more than 160 experts from universities, industry and government came together for five workshops over the last year to fully evaluate the use of robotics across various applications and create a roadmap to the future. Christensen is presenting that report to lawmakers as a guide on how to allocate resources to maximize progress.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMost notably, the group found using robots in manufacturing could help generate production systems that are economically competitive to outsourcing to countries with lower wages.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECompanies such as Apple, Lenovo, Samsung and Foxconn already have begun to \u201creshore\u201d manufacturing by using robotics in production systems. The sale of robotics in manufacturing grew by 44 percent in 2011 as robots have become cheaper and safer. The use of robots is shifting from big companies such as General Motors, Ford, Boeing and Lockheed Martin to small and medium-sized enterprises to enable burst manufacturing for one-off products, the report found.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChristensen notes that automation in manufacturing will not lead to job losses for U.S. workers, but will create new high-value jobs. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSome jobs will be eliminated, but they are the \u2018dirty, dull and dangerous\u2019 jobs,\u201d Christensen said. \u201cThose jobs will be replaced with skilled labor positions. That\u2019s why one of the goals in the roadmap is to educate the workforce.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to manufacturing, robots are helping businesses such as Amazon improve logistics and reduce delivery costs, a savings that could be passed on to the consumer. In agriculture, robots are being used to precisely deliver pesticide onto crops, reducing unnecessary exposure of chemicals on produce. The report recommends continued progress in both areas.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith advances in human-like manipulation, robots are increasingly assisting individuals with disabilities with tasks such as getting out and preparing meals. They are also being used in 40 percent more medical procedures than a few years ago and in a greater number of surgical areas such as cardiothoracic, gynecology, urology, orthopedics and neurology. The use of robots for surgery can reduce complications by 80 percent, the report found.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERobots have proven their value in removing first-responders and soldiers from immediate danger. More than 25,000 robotic systems were deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan for ground and aerial missions. More than 50 percent of pilots in the U.S. Air Force operate remotely piloted systems and never leave the ground.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlso robots are becoming an integral part of space exploration, such as the Opportunity and Curiosity on Mars rovers. A \u201crobonaut\u201d is on the International Space Station helping with menial but important research tasks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs impressive as the progress in robotics has been, the report outlines five-, 10- and 15-year goals to take robotics to the next level. Critical capabilities that should be developed for robotics include 3-D perception, intuitive human-robot interaction and safe robot behavior.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe report is an update of the initial robotics roadmap, which was published and presented to Congress in May 2009. That roadmap led to the creation of the National Robotics Initiative, an effort jointly sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Institutes of Health. It also established Robotics VO, a community networking platform that brings all robotics players together to focus on joint initiatives including research, STEM outreach and technology transfer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRobotics is one of a few technologies capable of building new companies, creating new jobs and addressing a number of issues of national importance,\u201d said Christensen. \u201cWe hope this report will help foster the discussion on how we can build partnerships and allocate resources to move the robotics industry forward.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERobots are being used more widely than expected in a variety of sectors, and the trend is likely to continue with robotics becoming as ubiquitous as computer technology over the next 15 years, according to the new report.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Henrik Christensen, Georgia Tech\u2019s KUKA Chair of Robotics, presents \u201cA Roadmap for U.S. Robotics: From Internet to Robotics - 2013 Edition\u201d to Congress."}],"uid":"27462","created_gmt":"2013-03-20 08:31:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:51","author":"Liz Klipp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-03-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-03-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"200761":{"id":"200761","type":"image","title":"Henrik Christensen, KUKA Chair of Robotics","body":null,"created":"1449179943","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:59:03","changed":"1475894853","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:33","alt":"Henrik Christensen, KUKA Chair of Robotics","file":{"fid":"196566","name":"10p1000-p71-032.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/10p1000-p71-032_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/10p1000-p71-032_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1658067,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/10p1000-p71-032_1.jpg?itok=thcn5Hdb"}}},"media_ids":["200761"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.robotics-vo.us\/node\/332","title":"Robotics VO"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.roboticscaucus.org\/members\/default.asp","title":"Congressional Robotics Caucus"},{"url":"http:\/\/robotics-vo.us\/sites\/default\/files\/2013%20Robotics%20Roadmap-rs.pdf","title":"A Roadmap for U.S. Robotics: From Internet to Robotics - 2013 Edition"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/henrik-christensen","title":"Henrik Christensen, Georgia Tech\u0027s KUKA Chair of Robotics"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/03\/20\/road-cutting-edge-robots","title":"White House Office of Science and Technology Policy blog post"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"155","name":"Congressional Testimony"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"654","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"346","name":"congress"},{"id":"11890","name":"henrik christensen"},{"id":"12239","name":"RIM"},{"id":"62031","name":"Robotics Roadmap"},{"id":"62041","name":"Robotics VO"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["klipp@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"251851":{"#nid":"251851","#data":{"type":"news","title":"RIM Faculty Promoted","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022title\u0022\u003EThe Robotics \u0026amp; Intelligent Machine Center\u2019s faculty members have technically diverse backgrounds and conduct innovative research to advance robotics. Recently, six of RIM\u2019s outstanding faculty members received promotions within their academic units in the Colleges of Computing, Engineering and Science:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/frank-dellaert\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EFrank Dellaert\u003C\/a\u003E: promoted to full Professor in the School of Interactive Computing\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/user\/daniel-goldman\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDaniel Goldman\u003C\/a\u003E:\u0026nbsp;promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the School of\u0026nbsp; Physics\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/facultystaff\/faculty_record.php?id=104\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECharlie Kemp\u003C\/a\u003E: promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/thad-starner\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EThad Starner\u003C\/a\u003E: promoted to full Professor in the School of Interactive Computing\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/andrea-thomaz\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAndrea Thomaz\u003C\/a\u003E: promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the School of Interactive Computing\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=153\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=153\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EFumin Zhang\u003C\/a\u003E: promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022title\u0022\u003EThe Robotics \u0026amp; Intelligent Machine Center\u2019s faculty members have technically diverse backgrounds and conduct innovative research to advance robotics. 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He is the first faculty member in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) to hold this new professorship.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Egerstedt joined the Georgia Tech ECE faculty in 2001 and conducts research in the areas of control theory and robotics, with particular focus on control and coordination of complex networks, such as multi-robot systems, mobile sensor networks, and cyber-physical systems. He leads the Georgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory, where he currently advises 15 graduate students. 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He was instrumental in establishing the multidisciplinary Ph.D. program in robotics and was one of the first faculty members at Georgia Tech to teach a Coursera MOOC called \u0022Control of Mobile Robots,\u0022 which has an enrollment of over\u0026nbsp;40,000\u0026nbsp;students this semester.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EElected an IEEE Fellow in 2012, Dr. Egerstedt was recently named an IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer and as the inaugural deputy editor-in-chief of the new journal,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Control of Networked Systems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EHe is also a past recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and the ECE Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Professor Magnus Egerstedt has been appointed as the Schlumberger Professor, effective March 1. 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