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Week 1
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* Tue lecture (31 Mar): Motivation (bio and engineering; 60m) + class logistics (30m)
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* Wed lab session #1, 7-10 pm
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* Thu lecture (2 Apr): Programming concepts
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* HW out on Tue, due following Tue
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* Lab hours on Mon, 1-4 pm
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'''Instructors'''
* Michael Dickinson (BBE), flyman@caltech.edu
* Richard Murray (CDS/BE), murray@cds.caltech.edu
* Chris Kempes (CMS/GPS), ckempes@gmail.com
* Floris van Breugel (BE), floris@caltech.edu
* Lectures: TuTh, 10:30-12, location TBD
* Office hours: by appointment
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'''Teaching Assistants'''
* David Flicker (ME)
* Melissa Tanner (ME)
* Lab session: Wed, 1-4 or 7-10 pm (determine later), location TBD
* Open lab hours: Mon, 1-4 pm, location TBD
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Week 2
=== Course Description ===
* Tue lecture (7 Apr): Mechanical design and fabrication
Students will formulate and implement an engineering project desired to explore a biological principle or property that is exhibited in nature.  Students will work in small teams in which they build a hardware platform that is motivated by a biological example in which a given approach or architecture is used to implement a given behavior.  Alternatively, the team will construct new experimental instruments in order to test for the presence of an engineering principle in a biological system.  Example topics include bio-inspired control of motion (from bacteria to insects), processing of sensory information (molecules to neurons), and robustness/fault-tolerance.  Each project will involve proposing a specific mechanism to be explored, designing an engineering system that can be used to demonstrate and evaluate the mechanism, and building a computer-controlled, electro-mechanical system in the lab that implements or characterizes the proposed mechanism, behavior or architecture.
* Wed lab session #2, 7-10 pm: Solid works, laser cutter
* Thu lecture (9 Apr): Biomechanics
* HW out on Tue, due following Tue
* Lab hours on Mon, 1-4 pm


Week 3
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* Tue lecture (14 Apr): Electrical design, sensing and actuation
* Wed lab session, 7-10 pm
* Thu lecture (16 Apr): Animal sensors/actuators
* HW out on Tue, due following Tue
* Lab hours on Mon, 1-4 pm


Week 4
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* Tue lecture (21 Apr): Control systems
* Wed lab session, 7-10 pm
* Thu lecture (23 Apr): Feedback principles in biology
* HW out on Tue, due following Tue
* Lab hours on Mon, 1-4 pm
 
Week 5
* Tue lecture (28 Apr): Image processing (Pietro?)
* Wed lab session, 7-10 pm
* Thu lecture (30 Apr): Animal vision systems
* HW out on Tue, due following Tue
* Lab hours on Mon, 1-4 pm
 
Week 6
* Tue lecture (5 May): estimation
** Include things that might mirror what nature does (eg, DGC)
** Kalman filtering; use in avoiding higher order derivatives
* Wed lab session, 7-10 pm: tracking
* Thu lecture (7 May): animal behavior
* HW out on Tue, due following Tue
* Lab hours on Mon, 1-4 pm
 
Week 7
* Tue lecture (12 May): Systems design
* Lab hours on Wed, 7-10 pm
* Thu lecture (14 May): Evolution
* Lab hours on Mon, 1-4 pm
 
Week 8
* Tue lecture (19 May): Robotics/autonomy
* Lab hours on Wed, 7-10 pm
* Thu lecture (21 May): Experiment design
* Lab hours on Mon, 1-4 pm
 
Week 9
* Tue lecture (26 May): Frontiers I - engineering
* Lab hours on Wed, 7-10 pm
* Thu lecture (28 May): Frontiers II - engineering
* Lab hours on Mon, 1-4 pm

Latest revision as of 01:08, 30 March 2015

BE 107: Exploring Biological Principles Through Bio-Inspired Design

Instructors

  • Michael Dickinson (BBE), flyman@caltech.edu
  • Richard Murray (CDS/BE), murray@cds.caltech.edu
  • Chris Kempes (CMS/GPS), ckempes@gmail.com
  • Floris van Breugel (BE), floris@caltech.edu
  • Lectures: TuTh, 10:30-12, location TBD
  • Office hours: by appointment

Teaching Assistants

  • David Flicker (ME)
  • Melissa Tanner (ME)
  • Lab session: Wed, 1-4 or 7-10 pm (determine later), location TBD
  • Open lab hours: Mon, 1-4 pm, location TBD

Course Description

Students will formulate and implement an engineering project desired to explore a biological principle or property that is exhibited in nature. Students will work in small teams in which they build a hardware platform that is motivated by a biological example in which a given approach or architecture is used to implement a given behavior. Alternatively, the team will construct new experimental instruments in order to test for the presence of an engineering principle in a biological system. Example topics include bio-inspired control of motion (from bacteria to insects), processing of sensory information (molecules to neurons), and robustness/fault-tolerance. Each project will involve proposing a specific mechanism to be explored, designing an engineering system that can be used to demonstrate and evaluate the mechanism, and building a computer-controlled, electro-mechanical system in the lab that implements or characterizes the proposed mechanism, behavior or architecture.

Course homepage
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