Decentralized Control for Bio-machine Hybrid Systems Exploiting Mechanical Stimulation

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15H02763
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Intelligent robotics
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: Shimizu Masahiro 大阪大学, 基礎工学研究科, 准教授 (50447140)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 心筋細胞 / 非線形振動子ネットワーク / 相互引き込み現象 / ロコモーション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to control bio-machine hybrid systems in decentralized manner by exploiting mechanical stimulations. This type of robots locomote by utilizing cooperation between cardiac cells Here, cardiac cells play a role of not only actuators for locomotion but also sensor for detection of mechanical stimulation. The propose robots can improve their body structure dynamically during cell culturing. We found that we may control locomotion style of the proposed robots by changing the collagen sheets as the substrates of cardiac cells.

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