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Robotic Materials


   Workshop Report   

April 23-24, 2018

The Keck Center
500 5th Street Northwest, Washington D.C., DC 20001, United States



Event Contact

Ann Drobnis
adrobnis@cra.org


Event Type

2018 Events, 2018 Visioning Activities, Workshop


Event Category

CCC

Overview

Biological tissues such as the camouflaging skin of an octopus, the wing of a bat, a bone, or the wood of a Banyan tree exhibits a level of functionality and autonomy that engineers can only dream of. While wood and bone have already become poster-childs of bio-inspired composite materials for their impressive structural properties, the material science community has not really appreciated that the structural properties of these systems are only a small subset of the functionality that living wood and living bone provide: self-repair, adapting their structure to changing loading conditions, or storing energy for the organisms they serve.

Functionally speaking, these tissues are composites that tightly integrate sensing, actuation, computation and communication. They are made of materials that can harvest, metabolize and store energy to power computers that interact with sensors and actuators that affect their physical properties or make them move. The ongoing miniaturization of computation as well as advances in material science and manufacturing has made engineering such materials conceivable and a concerted effort in their development very timely, but it is still unclear (1) how existing materials and devices can be integrated and (2) how we need to program individual computing elements that might be as small and as numerous as sand grains on a beach to achieve a desired collective behavior. Albeit the required effort is highly interdisciplinary, computer science – in particular distributed, self-organizing algorithms – is central for such an effort, which our community, in particular from the subfields systems and robotics – is prepared to lead. Computer Science is not only needed to understand the algorithms that drive such future materials, but also how to make them.

This workshop built upon the inaugural AFOSR/ARO-sponsored workshop on “Robotic Materials” at CU Boulder, which has established a dialog between the sensor networks, robotics, and material science communities, and the CCC-sponsored workshop on “Material Robotics” at RSS in Cambridge, MA, which has showcased some of the ongoing interdisciplinary work at the intersection of computing, robotics, and material science.

Agenda

April 23, 2018 (Monday)

08:00 AM BREAKFAST | Kimpton Hotel Monaco / Athens Room
10:00 AM Introduction | Keck Center of the National Academies / Room 208
10:30 AM Participant Introductions | Keck Center of the National Academies / Room 208
11:00 AM Breakout 1- Bronze, Iron, Plastic age, what will the next material revolution look like? | Keck Center of the National Academies / Room 208
12:00 PM Presentations and Panel Discussion | Keck Center of the National Academies / Room 208
01:00 PM LUNCH | Keck Center of the National Academies
02:00 PM Breakout II- Civilian and military applications of next-generation materials | Keck Center of the National Academies / Room 208
03:30 PM BREAK | Keck Center of the National Academies
04:00 PM Presentations and panel discussion | Keck Center of the National Academies / Room 208
06:00 PM Conclude Day 1 | Keck Center of the National Academies / Room 208
06:30 PM DINNER | Kimpton Hotel Monaco / Paris Ballroom

April 24, 2018 (Tuesday)

07:30 AM BREAKFAST | Kimpton Hotel Monaco / Dirty Habit Restaurant in the hotel
09:00 AM Regroup | Keck Center of the National Academies / Room 208
09:10 AM Breakout III-Fundamental science opportunities in materials and system integration | Keck Center of the National Academies / Room 208
10:00 AM Presentations and panel discussion | Keck Center of the National Academies / Room 208
11:00 AM BREAK | Keck Center of the National Academies
11:15 AM Breakout IV-Government opportunities to maintain leadership and avoid surprise in Robotic Materials | Keck Center of the National Academies / Room 208
12:00 PM Presentations and panel discussion | Keck Center of the National Academies / Room 208
01:00 PM Closing Remarks | Keck Center of the National Academies / Room 208
Organizers

Nikolaus Correll, University of Colorado at Boulder
Kris Pister, University of California, Berkeley
Robert F. Shepherd, Cornell University

Resources

CCC SLIDE TEMPLATES

Group 1
Group 2
Group 3

Group 1: Civilian applications
Group 2: Military applications
Group 3: Healthcare applications

Group 1: Computation
Group 2: Sensing and Actuation
Group 3: Manufacturing

Group 1: A NSF vision for Robotic Materials
Group 2: A DoD vision for Robotic Materials
Group 3: An industry vision for Robotic Materials

PAPERS

Y. Mengüç, N. Correll, R. Kramer, J. Paik, Will robots be bodies with
brains or brains with bodies?. Sci. Robot. 2, eaar4527 (2017).
https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.aar4527

N. Correll, P. Dutta, R. Han, and K. Pister. 2017. New Directions:
Wireless Robotic Materials. In Proceedings of SenSys ’17. ACM, New
York, NY, USA, 6 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3131672.3131702

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