Ron Fearing

Professor of Electrical Engineerin
Keywords: mechanics, controls, materials
Research Areas: robotics, biosystem
Website: http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/

Research Description:

The goal of the Biomimetic Millisystems Lab is to harness features of animal manipulation, locomotion, sensing, actuation, mechanics, dynamics, and control strategies to radically improve millirobot capabilities. Research in the lab ranges from fundamental understanding of mechanical principles to novel fabrication techniques to system integration of autonomous millirobots. The lab works closely with biologists to develop models of function which can be tested on engineered and natural systems. The lab’s current research is centered on fly-size flapping flight, and all-terrain crawling using nanostructured adhesives.

Selected Publications:

  • J. Lee, C. Ma jidi, B. Schubert, R.S. Fearing. Sliding induced adhesion of stiff polymer microfiber arrays: Macroscale behaviour. Journal Royal Society, Interface. 2008.
  • K. Autumn, C. Ma jidi, R.E. Groff, A. Dittmore, and R. Fearing. Effective elastic modulus of isolated gecko setal arrays. Journal of Experimental Biology. vol. 209, pp. 3558-3568, 2006.
  • C. Ma jidi, R.E. Groff, Y. Maeno, B. Schubert, S. Baek, B. Bush, R. Maboudian, N. Gravish, M. Wilkinson, K. Autumn, and R.S. Fearing. High friction from a stiff polymer using microfiber arrays. Physical Review Letters. 2006.
  • K. Autumn, M. Sitti, Y.A. Liang, A.M. Peattie, W.R. Hansen, S. Sponberg, T. Kenny, R. Fearing, J.N. Israelachvili, and R.J. Full. Evidence for van der Waals adhesion in gecko setae. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences. vol. 99, no. 19, pp. 12252-12256, 2002.
  • K. Autumn, Y. Liang, T. Hsieh, W. Zesch, W.-P. Chan, T. Kenny, R. Fearing, and R.J. Full. Adhesive force of a single gecko foot-hair. Nature. vol. 405, pp. 681-685, 2000.
  • B. Schubert, C. Ma jidi, R. E. Groff, S. Baek, B. Bush, R. Maboudian, R.S. Fearing, “Towards friction and adhesion from high modulus microfiber arrays,” Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, vol. 21, pp. 1297-1315, 2007.
  • R.J. Wood, S. Avadhanula, R. Sahai, E. Steltz, R.S. Fearing, “Microrobot design using fiber reinforced composites,” to appear ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, April 2008.
  • M. Sitti and R.S. Fearing, “Synthetic Gecko Foot-Hair Micro/Nano-Structures as Dry Adhesives,” Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, vol. 17, no.8, pp. 1055-1074, 2003.
  • R.J. Wood, S. Avadhanula, E. Steltz, M. Seeman, J. Entwistle, A. Bachrach, G. Barrows, S. Sanders, and R.S. Fearing, “An Autonomous Palm-Sized Gliding Micro Air Vehicle: Design, Fabrication, and Results of a Fully Integrated Centimeter-Scale MAV,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 82-91, June 2007.
  • E. Steltz and R.S. Fearing, “Dynamometer Power Output Measurements of Piezoelectric Actuators” IEEE Int. Conf. on Intel ligent Robots and Systems, San Diego, CA, Oct. 2007.

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