Robotic Systems and Autonomous Platforms

Dr. Shawn M. Walsh is currently the Research, Development, and Engineering Command (RDECOM) Fellow serving on the Army Future Studies Group. As an active researcher at the Army Research Laboratory, he has been widely recognized for his early and continued work in intelligent materials and processes, and the development of new application space by reaching across academic, industrial, and military sectors. He is an alumni of the National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers in Engineering, and the recipient of several awards including the U.S. Defense Manufacturing Technology Achievement Award for breakthrough performance of next generation head protection Professor Michael S. Strano is currently the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on micro- and nano-meter scale robotics, biomolecule/nanoparticle interactions and the surface chemistry of low dimensional systems, nano-electronics, nanoparticle separations, and applications of vibrational spectroscopy to nanotechnology. Michael is the recipient of numerous awards for his work from 2005 to the present, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017

• Section A Actuation1. Manipulation, assembling, and actuation of nanomotors by electric tweezersDonglei (Emma) Fan2. Artificial muscle logic devices for autonomous local controlE.-F. Markus Henke, Katherine E. Wilson, Geoffrey A. Slipher, Randy A. Mrozek, Iain A. Anderson3. Hygromorphic living materials for shape changingLining YaoSection B Mobility4. Fluid-driven intrinsically soft robotsRobert Shepherd, Kirstin Petersen5. Designing Proteus: Engineering form and function for microroboticsRemmi Baker, Allan M. Brooks, Ayusman Sen6. Physics approaches to natural locomotion: Every robot is an experimentYasemin Ozkan Aydin, Jennifer M. Rieser, Christian M. Hubicki, William Savoie, Daniel I. Goldman7. Robotic colloids: Engineered self-propulsion at the microscale (and smaller)Jeffrey L. MoranSection C Control Theory and Algorithms – Logic and Proxy Electronic Functions – Algorithmic Materials8. Soft timer: Dynamic clock embedded in soft bodyKohei Nakajima, Tao Li, Nozomi Akashi9. Algorithmic materials: Embedding computation within material properties for autonomyAna Pervan, Todd Murphey10. Achieving self-sustained motion of particles in solution with chemical pumpsOleg E. Shklyaev, Henry Shum, Anna C. Balazs11. Topology optimization for robotics applicationsRaymond Wildman, Andrew GaynorSection D Integration12. Robotic materials for robot autonomyNikolaus Correl13. 3D printed electronic materials and devicesRuitao Su, Sung Hyun Park, Zhaohan Li, Michael C. McAlpine14. Additive manufacturing of soft robotsS. Walker, O.D. Yirmibesoglu, U. Daalkhaijav, Y. Menguc15. Synthetic cells, or colloidal state machines, with two-dimensional materialsJingfan Yang, Volodymyr B. Koman, Pingwei Liu, Tianxian Liu, Michael S. StranoSection E Energy16. Energy harvesting techniques mediated by molecular interactions with nanostructured carbon materialsAlbert Tianxiang Liu, Ge Zhang, Michael S. Strano17. Mechanics of fluid-elastomer systems in soft roboticsCarmel Majidi18. Structural power, energy, actuation, and mobility in intelligently directed systems enabled from nanocrystalline metalsAnit K. Giri, Kristopher A. Darling, Shawn M. WalshSection F Novel Robotics as Material Platforms19.  Materials design for robotic platforms enabling unique mechanisms of projectile protectionPingwei Liu, Michael S. Strano20. The confluence of intelligent agents and materials to enable protection of humans in extreme and dangerous environmentsShawn M. Walsh, Daniel M. Baechle21 Super materials and robots making robots: Challenges and opportunities in robotic building at the microstructural levelRon Pelrine