robotics-2019-keynote

2 / 6

allied
academies
Page 11
Notes:
Research & Reviews: Journal of Engineering and Technology | ISSN: 2319-9873 | Volume 8
May 23-24, 2019 | Vienna, Austria
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
2nd International Conference on
Autonomous robotics and unmanned vehicles continue
to revolutionize the operational model of various
industries, ranging from transportation and manufacturing
to defense. Autonomy however requires a platform with
both local and global situational awareness. The associated
control system, including sensors, actuators, computation,
information transfer, and data storage, increases the
complexity of the platform exponentially. A key challenge to
this vision is disaggregating centralized control methodologies
into a hierarchical network where some autonomy (spatial
and temporal) is local, much like the autonomic versus the
somatic nervous system. While much of the effort to address
this challenge has focused on enhanced algorithms for
synthesis of global sensor data, an alternative approach to
local autonomy is to reframe how we consider engineering a
material to behave in an environment. In this study, structure
deformation and material responsiveness is re-interpreted
into the language of logical operators, raising the level of
decision functionality at the material/structure level. Thus, a
desired response function based on environmental sensing,
information processing, and deformation memory emerges
from the synergism between the structure and material,
which we will demonstrate in a humidity-responsive,
origami structure. This paradigm shift provides a significant
opportunity to rethink how autonomous functionality can be
distributed across a robotics system to share and decentralize
the information processing.
Speaker Biography
Philip R Buskohl is a Research Mechanical Engineer in the Functional
Materials Division at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). The
Division delivers materials and processing solutions to revolutionize AF
capabilities in Survivability, Directed Energy, Reconnaissance, Integrated
Energy and Human Performance. He has authored over 23 peer-reviewed
papers ranging from the mechanical properties of embryonic heart value
development, the chemical-mechanical feedback of self-oscillating gels,
stimuli responsive polymers, and origami design. He is currently a member
of the Flexible Electronics research team at AFRL, where he provides
mechanical analysis and design concepts for conformal and deformable
electronics packaging. He received his PhD degree in theoretical and
applied mechanics from Cornell University in 2012.
e:
Philip R Buskohl
Richard Vaia, Ben Treml and Andrew Gillman
Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Local mechanologic operators for enhanced autonomy
Philip R Buskohl, JET, Volume 8 | ISSN: 2319-9873