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Robotics Engineering Colloquium Series: Dr. Onur Özcan | Miniature Bio-Ins
 pired Robots: Rigid to Complian
\n\n\n      \n      \n\n\n\nRobotics Engineering Colloquium Series\nDr. Onur Özcan, Bilkent University Mechanical Engineering Department\nMiniature Bio-Inspired Robots:
  Rigid to Compliant\nWednesday, April 12th, 2023\n12:00 PM - 1:00 PM\nZoom
  Link : https://wpi.zoom.us/j/94166856868\nAbstract:As robotics researcher
 s, we try to build highly mobile, efficient, and robust robots similar to 
 living organisms in terms of locomotion performance. Achieving high-perfor
 mance locomotion becomes more of a challenge as the size scale of the robo
 t decreases. We observe miniature robots’ biological counterparts, i.e.,
  insects and small animals, having extraordinary locomotion capabilities s
 uch as running, jumping, and climbing robustly over various terrains. Desp
 ite the recent advances in the field of miniature robotics, the design and
  capabilities of miniature robots are still limited due to the unavailabil
 ity of fabrication methods, the rigidity of our mechanical structures, and
  our poor grasp of the physics behind miniature robot locomotion. This tal
 k addresses these challenges, focusing on the mechanical design and fabric
 ation of Bilkent miniature robots, the effects of their structural complia
 nce on robot locomotion, and the modeling efforts conducted to understand 
 locomotion at the miniature scale.\nBio:Dr. Onur Özcan creates bio-inspir
 ed miniature robots through research in mechanical engineering and robotic
 s interface. He received his B.S. (2007) in Mechatronics Engineering at Sa
 banci University and his M.S. (2010) and Ph.D. (2012) in Mechanical Engine
 ering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, wher
 e he worked on the control and automation of tip-directed nanoscale fabric
 ation. As a postdoctoral fellow, he conducted research on the fabrication 
 and control of miniature crawling robots at Harvard University’s School 
 of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologicall
 y Inspired Engineering from April 2012 to January 2015. Following his post
 doctoral position, he joined Bilkent University Mechanical Engineering Dep
 artment as an Assistant Professor in January 2015. He leads the Bilkent Mi
 niature Robotics Lab and is active in research in miniature and soft robot
 ics fields. He runs several Tubitak (The national science foundation of Tu
 rkey)-funded projects on miniature and soft robots and serves as an associ
 ate editor for the soft robotics field in IEEE Robotics and Automation Let
 ters.\n
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