The International Workshop on Bionic Engineering (IWBE 2012) was held in Zhangjiajie, China, on October 16-19, 2012, which was sponsored and organized by International Society of Bionic Engineering(ISBE), National University of Defense Technology and Jilin University. It was also supported by IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee on Biorobotics.
The theme of IWBE 2012 is "New Challenges of Bionic Engineering in Artificial Systems". Prof. Julian F. V. Vincent, the President of ISBE, Bath University ,UK and Prof. REN Luquan, Jilin University , China serve as the special advisers of the workshop. Sixteen invited lectures was given in two days, the invited speakers are from USA, UK, Swiss, Canada, Australia, Poland, Korea, Singapore and China. The topics covered bionic science, biomimetic robotic, biomaterials, bio-chemistry, bio-inspired algorithms, bionic surface, etc. . LI Jianqiao, general secretary of ISBE, introduced the society work process at the workshop. Prof. DAI Zhendong who is from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, gave detail descriptions of the 4th International Conference of Bionic Engineering (ICBE2013), Nanjing, China.
Nearly one hundred representatives attended the workshop, respectively from Bath University (UK), Manchester University (UK), Nottingham University (UK), Michigan University(US), Drexel University (US), Guelph University(Canada), the Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich (Switzerland), Warsaw University of Technology (Poland), CSIRO Animal Food and Health Sciences(Australia), Konkuk University (Korea), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China), Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China), National University of Defense Technology (China), Nanjing Aeronautics and Astronautics University (China), Beihang University (China), and Jilin University (China). Especially, Prof. Chris Rudd, the expert of biomaterials and vice president of Nottingham University, and Academician JIANG Lei, the outstanding bionic scholar in China attended the workshop and gave presentations. The representatives of ISBE and Journal of Bionic Engineering (JBE) attended the workshop as well. IWBE would be a memorable event to promote academic exchanges at an international and interdisciplinary level.
Invited lecturers:
Prof. Xue-feng Yuan, University of Manchester, UK
“Micro-morphological engineering of silk fibroin biomaterials for biomedical applications”
Prof. James L. Tangorra, Drexel University, USA
“The mechanics and sensory based control of multi-fin swimming”
Prof. Lei Jiang, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
“Bio-inspired, smart, multiscale interfacial materials”
Prof. Hoon Choel Park, Konkuk University, Korea
“Assessment of inherent pitching stability and strategy for attitude control in an insect-mimicking flapping-wing system”
Prof. Julian F. V. Vincent, University of Bath, UK
“Materials, selection for biomimetics”
Prof. K. H. Low, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
“Current trends of biologically inspired underwater robots”
Prof. Zhiwu Han, Jilin University, China
“Desert scorpion inspires sand-resistant surface and its application”
Prof. Chris Rudd, University of Nottingham, UK
“The biomechanical properties of intact rabbit tibia plated with a novel resorbable composite plate”
Prof. Wenjian Wu, National University of Defense Technology, China
“Bionic biology: a novel concept of artificial imitating the life vitality”
Prof. Christopher M. Elvin, CSIRO Animal Food and Health Sciences, Australia
“Molecular biomimicry-Nature’s 4 billion years of R&dD”
Prof. Dewen Hu, National University of Defense Technology, China
“Spatio-temporal analysis of brain images”
Prof. Peter. X. Ma, University of Michigan, USA
“Biomimetic materials for regenerative medicine”
Prof. Zhendong Dai, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
“Bionics on locomotion on land: statutes, frontier and further developments”
Prof. Teresa Zielinska, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
“Roots of biologically inspired engineering-from prehistoric toys to modern robots”
Prof. Simon X. Yang, University of Guelph, Canada
“Biologically inspired intelligent robotics”
Prof. Fumiya Iida, ETH Zurich, Swizerland
“The next challenges in Bio-inspired robotics”
