BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Sydney BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20201004T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:AEDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20210404T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=4 TZNAME:AEST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20201008T061243Z UID:35C324F7-1151-4472-BC39-7B107E7524A6 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20201008T153000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20201008T163000 DESCRIPTION:Nature uses a plethora of micro and nano-scale sensors in its c reations. While many of such sensors and actuators have been identified an d studied for their functions in animals and insects\, we are only beginni ng to discover the underlying design templates that Nature uses and create s multiple variants of the design with parameter tweaking. Understanding s uch design templates is essential as they often contain natural scaling of underlying transduction principles and their implementation with physical designs. The modern tools of imaging and characterization are making the discovery of these design templates possible as we are now able to constru ct the whole system from the information on its pieces from biological stu dies and piece-together simulations that tell us the whole story. We have been studying the bioacoustics of crickets in order to understand transduc er design for efficient sound amplification as well as directional sound d etection. We have been also studying insect halteres as gyroscopes to see how such a simple design lends itself to a 3-axis rate of rotation sensing . This talk contains some details of these studies that are targeted at di scovering the underlying engineering design and a more generic design temp late of Nature’s transducers.\n\nCo-sponsored by: Prof. Subhas Mukhopadh yay\n\nSpeaker(s): Prof. Rudra Pratap\, \n\nSydney\, New South Wales\, Aus tralia\, 2109\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/240118 LOCATION:Sydney\, New South Wales\, Australia\, 2109\, Virtual: https://eve nts.vtools.ieee.org/m/240118 ORGANIZER:Subhas.Mukhopadhyay@mq.edu.au SEQUENCE:1 SUMMARY:Discovering Engineering Design Templates in Nature’s Transducers URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/240118 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>Nature uses a plethora of micro and nano-s cale sensors in its creations. While many of such sensors and actuators ha ve been identified and studied for their functions in animals and insects\ , we are only beginning to discover the underlying design templates that N ature uses and creates multiple variants of the design with parameter twea king. Understanding such design templates is essential as they often conta in natural scaling of underlying transduction principles and their impleme ntation with physical designs. The modern tools of imaging and characteriz ation are making the discovery of these design templates possible as we ar e now able to construct the whole system from the information on its piece s from biological studies and piece-together simulations that tell us the whole story. We have been studying the bioacoustics of crickets in order t o understand transducer design for efficient sound amplification as well a s directional sound detection. We have been also studying insect halteres as gyroscopes to see how such a simple design lends itself to a 3-axis rat e of rotation sensing. This talk contains some details of these studies th at are targeted at discovering the underlying engineering design and a mor e generic design template of Nature&rsquo\;s transducers.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR