第二十七期

l 2022年11月29日（周二） 腾讯会议：932-938-804  密码：221129    

报告41：

报告时间：2022年11月29日（周二） 9:30-11:00

报告嘉宾：Prof. Xinyu Liu, University of Toronto

报告题目：Soft Sensors, Electronics and Robots

报告摘要：In the past decades, significant efforts have been spent on developing soft sensors, electronics, and robots for more efficient and seamless interactions between human and engineering systems. In addition, natural biological systems have also provided enormous inspirations for novel biomimetic designs of soft robots. Together, all these activities have gradually blurred the boundary between our natural biological systems and artificial machines, which may eventually realize the scientific fantasy of cybernetic organisms (cyborgs). My research group at University of Toronto is working at the interface of soft/stretchable sensors, electronics, and robotics. In this talk, I will describe our recent work on developing polymer-based soft sensors and electronics and introduce our progress on optogenetic locomotion control of a living soil-dwelling nematode C. elegans for microrobotic applications. Experimental results and demonstrations will be presented to showcase how new soft materials and structures are designed to construct multifunctional sensors and electronics for wearable sensing, human-machine interaction, and soft robotics; and how the optogenetic worm locomotion control strategy could potentially convert a small organism into a living soft microrobot. Finally, the future work along these directions will be briefly discussed.

报告人简介：刘新宇，加拿大多伦多大学机械与工业工程系Percy Edward Hart讲席教授，微流控与生物微机电系统实验室主任。2011-2017年间，在加拿大麦吉尔大学机械系先后担任助理教授和副教授，并任加拿大微流控与生物微机电系统领域研究主席。本科毕业于哈工大机械电子工程系，硕士毕业于哈工大机器人研究所，博士毕业于多伦多大学机械与工业工程系。2009-2011年间，在美国哈佛大学化学与化学生物系从事博士后研究。他的主要研究方向是微纳和软体机器人学、柔性电子器件、微流控器件与系统。他和他的团队在机器人和生医结合领域的国际期刊和国际会议上获得8项最佳论文奖。现任IEEE机器人与自动化学会微纳机器人专委会主席，Frontiers in Robotics and AI期刊主编（chief editor）,IEEE Robotics and Automation和Microsystems & Nanoengineering资深编辑（senior editor）, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering、IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology副编辑（associate editor），中国工程院院刊Engineering 客座编辑。2021年当选为ASME Fellow。