Prof. Alper Bozkurt
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University
April 14, 2015 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall
Host: Michel Maharbiz
Current technology falls short in offering autonomous mobile robots that can function effectively and efficiently under unknown and dynamic environmental conditions. However, insects and canines exhibit an unmatched ability to navigate a wide variety of environments and overcome obstacles by successfully maintaining control and stability. This talk will present how microsystems-based neural stimulation and physiological monitoring systems are used to wirelessly navigate cockroaches and train dogs to enable cyber-physical working animals. These biobots can potentially assist in environmental sensing to pinpoint hazardous materials and in search-and-rescue applications to find earthquake victims. This is one of the on-going efforts in the Integrated Bionic MicroSystems Laboratory (iBionicS Lab), which has a vision to introduce conceptually novel neural engineering methodologies and systems to interface artificial systems with biological organisms toward the next generation bionic cyber-physical systems. Such cyber-physical systems represent one of the building blocks leading to a new era where everything is interconnected by the IoT.
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