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JULY 25, 2017

Bioinspired

Aerial

Vehicles Workshop

SCHEDULE /

Meeting in Atrium of 550 Panama Mall, Stanford, CA

08:30  breakfast & registration

09:15  intros and high speed camera tutorial 
10:15  high speed filming 
11:15  talks - biology

  • 11:15 Bret Tobalske - Mechanics and Ecology of Take-off and Landing in Birds 

  • 11:40 Ashley Heers - Building a bird: development of the avian body plan 

  • 12:05 David Lentink - Visual control of flight modes and transitions in birds

  • 12:30 Jiaqi Huang - Neuronal Distance Estimation by a Fly-Robot Interface

12:45  lunch 
13:45  talks - robotics 
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  • 13:45 Mark Cutkosky - Synergies for Muti-modal Air-Surface Locomotion  

  • 14:15 Alexis Lussier Desbiens - Bioinspired water-air vehicle

14:45  demos part 1

15:15  coffee break 
15:45  lab visits 
16:15  remaining demos and high speed video sharing 
17:00  end 

WHEN /

JULY 25, 2017 9 AM to 5 PM

WHERE /

Stanford, CA

ABOUT THE EVENT /

This is a one day workshop on the intersections of robotics and biology, being held at Living Machines 2017, Stanford, California.

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