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Common Lab Instructional Labs Member Labs Libraries Field Sites Personnel Museums UCB Centers Motion Gallery CiBER Bio-inspiration The Goldberg Lab is designing, prototyping, and evaluating systems that will steer flexible needles from outside the body through deformable tissues to reach specified 3D anatomical targets. Our approach integrates real-time imaging, adaptive modeling and planning, and image-guided intraoperative needle control. More about Ken Goldberg CiBER Bio-inspiration Mating Odondtodactylus cultrifer. Recently we have shown that stomatopods in the genus Odontodactylus can detect and distinguish between right and left circularly polarized light. They also have patches of cuticle on their telsons that produce a circularly polarized signal. Studies in the Caldwell lab are examining how this very private communication system functions. More about Roy Caldwell CiBER Bio-inspiration Our method uses a precomputed dataset to synthesize detailed cloth wrinkles (a) that are layered onto a coarse base simulation (inset). The precomputed datset can be used to synthesize wrinkles for a wide range of poses (b). iHuamin Wang, Florian Hecht, Ravi Ramamoorthi, and James F. O’Brien.Example-Based Wrinkle Synthesis for Clothing Animation . In Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 , pages 107:1–8, July 2010. More about James O’Brien CiBER Bio-inspiration The Poly-PEDAL Lab at UC Berkeley studies the Performance, Energetics and Dynamics of Animal Locomotion. Directed by Robert Full, the lab explores the remarkable capabilities of many-footed animals (Poly-). The lab’s theme is Diversity Enables Discovery. More about Robert Full CiBER Faculty Research Advanced embryo of Ichthyophis kohtaoensis (Ichthyophiidae: Gymnophiona: Amphibia). These animals, because of their derived morphologies, are being investigated by Marvalee Wake in terms of the biomechanics of their feeding and locomotion, the functional integration of neural systems before, during, and after metamorphosis, and several other aspects important to understanding the evolution of their biology. Photo by Adam Summers. Learn more about Marvalee Wake CiBER Bio-inspiration The Brain-Machine Interface Lab explores the BMI paradigm – a powerful tool that allows investigating sensorimotor learning and control with both natural and prosthetic limbs. At the heart of this paradigm lies the volitional control of neural activity. More about Jose Carmena CiBER Bio-inspiration CiBER Faculty research by George Oster. The shells of the left are real shells; those to their right are generated by the neural net model. Boettiger, A., B. Ermentrout, G. Oster.(2009) The neural origins of shell structure and pattern in aquatic mollusks. PNAS 106:6837-6842. More about George Oster CiBER Bio-inspiration Professor Daniel Fletcher’s lab researches Cell Mechanics and Disease. The intestinal pathogen Giardia lamblia uses a unique ventral disk to form strong attachments to surfaces. More about Daniel Fletcher CiBER Student Research CiBER-IGERT Trainee Carlos Oroza designs robotic sensors which operate in dynamic environments and is interested in design and control of aquatic-sensor robots. View publicaitons CiBER Collaboration Robert Full studies the biomechanical properties of geckos which has inspired Ron Fearing’s work on artificial adhesive. The right images show: Combined Lamellar Nanofibrillar Array (Oct. 2009). Lamellar structures act as base support planes for high-aspect ratio HDPE fiber arrays. Nanofiber arrays on lamella can adhere to a smooth grating with 5 times greater shear strength than flat nanofiber array. More about our Faculty Welcome to CiBER The Center for Interdisciplinary Biological Inspiration in Education and Research (CiBER) at UC Berkeley focuses on how we learn from nature, innovate methods to extract principles in biology that inspire novel design in engineering, and train scientists and engineers to collaborate in mutually beneficial relationships. CiBER’s Core Objective: The Center for Integrative Biomechanics in Education and Research CiBER’s Broad Objective: The Center for Interdisciplinary Biological Inspiration in Education and Research CiBER: Will lead the development of a new field of Integrative Systems Biomechanics and train the next generation of integrative biologists. Will innovate methods to extract principles in biology that inspire novel design in engineering and train the next generation of scientists and engineers to collaborate in mutually beneficial relationships. Tagged with: News Comments are closed. 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