Join the Entomology Graduate Student Association on Thursday, April 16, in CUE 419 at 6:30 p.m. for the 2015 EGSA Student Choice Speaker event. This event is free and all are welcome.
This year’s speaker is Dr. Alper Bozkurt of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. His presentation is titled “Cyber-Enabled Bionic Animals for Environmental Sensing and Search-and-Rescue. “
Abstract: The present day technology falls short in offering autonomous mobile robots that can function effectively and efficiently under unknown and dynamic environmental conditions. Insects and canines, on the other hand, exhibit an unmatched ability to navigate through a wide variety of environments and overcome perturbations by successfully maintaining control and stability. In this talk, Dr. Alper Bozkurt will present how neural stimulation and physiological monitoring systems are used to wirelessly navigate cockroaches and train dogs to enable cyber-physical working animals. These biobots can potentially assist humans in environmental sensing and search-and-rescue applications to pinpoint hazardous material or to find earthquake victims. This is one of the on-going efforts under Integrated Bionic MicroSystems Laboratory (iBionicS Lab) which has a vision to introduce conceptually novel neural engineering methodologies and wearable systems to interface artificial systems with biological organisms towards the next generation bionic cyber-physical systems. Such cyber-physical systems would be the building blocks of a new era where everything is connected to each other through the Internet of Things.
To learn more about Dr. Bozkurt go to: https://www.ece.ncsu.edu/people/aybozkur
