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Figure 3. The workshop participants together with K.H. Low (chair of the IEEE RAS TC on
Biorobotics) at the inauguration of the TC Biorobotics SIG in China.

Figure 4. The founding group of the TC on Biorobotics China SIG together with K.H. Low
(center): from left, Li Wen (cochair), Chunlin Zhou (cochair), Daibing Zhang (advisor), K.H.
Low, Junzhi Yu (advisor), Shiwu Zhang (advisor), and Tianjiang Hu (chair).

many good papers that could not be accepted due to the page limits of the special issue. For a detailed survey on
bioinspired mechatronics and the introduction of the special issue, please
see the paper by Metin Sitti et al., "Survey and Introduction to the Focused
Section on Bio-Inspired Mechatronics,"
published in IEEE/ASME Transactions
on Mechatronics (vol. 18, no. 2, April
2013, pp. 409-418).
The presenters at the IROS 2013
workshop were invited to submit their
work to Bioinspiration & Biomimetics for
possible publication in a special issue on
hybrid and multimodal locomotion.
After more than a year of rigorous review,
the following papers have been accepted
and published in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics (vol. 10, no. 2, February 2015, doi:
10.1088/1748-3190/10/2/020301):
● "Folding In and Out: Passive Morphing in Flapping Wings," by Amanda
K. Stowers and David Lentink
● "Distributed Flow Estimation and
Closed-Loop Control of an Underwater Vehicle with a Multimodal Artificial Lateral Line," by Levi DeVries et al.

●

"Quadrupedal Galloping Control for
a Wide Range of Speed via Vertical
Impulse Scaling," by Hae-Won Park
and Sangbae Kim
"Goal-Directed Multimodal Locomotion Through Coupling Between
Mechanical and Attractor Selection
Dynamics," by S.G. Nurzaman et al.
"Running up a Wall: The Role and
Challenges of Dynamic Climbing in
Multimodal Applications," by Bruce
D. Miller et al.
"Performance Analysis of Jump-Gliding Locomotion for Miniature Robotics," by A. Vidyasagar et al.
"Multibody Systems Dynamics for
Bioinspired Locomotion: From Geometric Structures to Computational
Aspects," by Frédéric Boyer and
Mathieu Porez.

IEEE RAS TC on Biorobotics:
Special Interest Group in China
A group of researchers in China who
are interested and working in the relevant areas have established a special
interest group (SIG) of the IEEE TC on
Biorobotics. The inauguration of the

SIG was successfully held in Chengdu,
7 September 2014. K.H. Low was
invited to attend the inauguration of
the China SIG on behalf of the IEEE
TC on Biorobotics (Figure 3).
At the inauguration, Tianjiang Hu, Li
Wen, and Chunlin Zhou were selected to
serve as founding chair/cochairs (Figure 4), and Junzhi Yu, Daibing Zhang,
and Shiwu Zhang were appointed as advisors of the TC SIG. In conjunction with
the SIG inauguration, a workshop, "Current Research and Development of Bioinspired Robotics and Mechatronics,"
was held. The workshop covered two
sessions, with two keynote speakers and
six invited speakers. For the keynotes,
Junzhi Yu gave a keynote speech "Bioinspired CPG-Based Swimming Control
for Various Robots," while Li Wen presented his work, "Understanding Aquatic Propulsion Using Bio-Inspired
Robotics and Multimaterial Prototypes."
The China SIG of the TC on Biorobotics is dedicated to building a platform to share
information on
The team is starting
academic activities, creating a
to recruit new
link to the valumembers, targeting
able resources
from the IEEE
professional
RAS, and proresearchers,
viding more networking opporengineers, and
tunities for local
college students who
me mb e rs . To
work more effiare interested in
ciently, the SIG
biorobotics.
will collaborate
with committees
of i mp or t ant
domestic conferences, academic societies, and publishers in robotics,
mechatronics, automation, and bionic
engineering to help draw potential
members from their participants. The
team is starting to recruit new members, targeting professional researchers, engineers, and college students
who are interested in biorobotics. The
organization of student branches at
colleges is also a focus of the China

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