[초청강연] "What can roboticist and biologist do together?"

ABSTRACT :Since very early robots, biomimetics has been one of main researchfields in robotics. Examples include biped or quaduped walking robot,gecho-robot, humanoid robot, robotic hands, water strider robot, snakerobot, robot fly, robot fish, and more. These robots are the resultsof the efforts that roboticists try to develop such robotic systemsthat can move and behave like biological systems as well as to learnfrom biological systems for better controls and better mechanicaldesigns. Recently, as robotic technologies are developed further tothe practical level and affortable to research areas outside of therobotics, many scientists find the use of robotic systems as aresearch tool.In this talk, examples of robotic applications in biological researchare introduced including the recent collaboration effort between aroboticist at SKKU and a biologist at SNU.Through this talk, the speaker would like to seek for chances ofcollaboration between roboticists and biologists to study and learnfrom the nature.Short BIO :Hyungpil Moon (IEEE meber) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees inmechanical engineering from Pohang University of Science andTechnology (POSTECH), Pohang, Korea, in1996 and 1998, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanicalengineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2005.He was a postdoctoral fellow at Robotics Institute, Carnegie MellonUniversity, Pittsburgh, PA.(CMU-RI is the largest robotics institute in the world and the leadingresearch group in robotics and computer science.)He in currently a fulltime lecturer (tenure track) in the school ofmechanical engineering, SungKyunKwan University, Suwon, Korea.His research interests include distributed manipulation, localizationand navigation of multi-agent systems, and biomimetic robotics.