{"id":2163,"date":"2005-01-15T23:49:39","date_gmt":"2005-01-16T04:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2014-12-15T23:50:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T04:50:55","slug":"sensing-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2005\/01\/sensing-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sensing Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As he programs silicone microcircuits to mimic sensory systems, Ralph Etienne-Cummings keeps his eye on the lamprey eel and the fly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2164\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 204px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20_21labnotes001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2164\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20_21labnotes001.jpg\" alt=\"This robot\u2019s strutting gait takes a first step toward an implant that years from now could make it possible for paralyzed people to walk again. The circuits in a lamprey eel\u2019s spinal cord offered inspiration to the researchers.\" width=\"194\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20_21labnotes001.jpg 194w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20_21labnotes001-170x300.jpg 170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>This robot\u2019s strutting gait takes a first step toward an implant that years from now could make it possible for paralyzed people to walk again. The circuits in a lamprey eel\u2019s spinal cord offered inspiration to the researchers.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In search of inspiration for more sophisticated, more energy-efficient, and ever-smaller sensory systems to serve as the eyes, legs, and ears of next-generation robots, Ralph Etienne-Cummings and his colleagues continually look to nature. They peer into the eye of Diptera, so to speak, or along the spinal cord of the lamprey eel.<\/p>\n<p>In his view, a fly is anything but lowly. \u201cHere is a tiny insect with an extremely sophisticated system of sight that allows it to fly around a room, avoid slaps and flyswatters, and even mate in midair,\u201d says Etienne-Cummings, \u201cyet it uses less than one grain of sugar\u2019s worth of energy a day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A pioneer in the field of neuromorphic engineering, Etienne-Cummings is an associate professor of Electrical and Compu-ter Engineering and director of the Whiting School of Engineering\u2019s Computational Sensory-Motor Systems Laboratory. Working in the Whiting School\u2019s renovated Stieff Silver building, near the Homewood campus, his research team explores the crossroads of microcircuitry and biological systems, particularly sensory perception systems. \u201cThere are very similar constraints in the way biology works and the way microcircuits work,\u201d he explains. \u201cKnowing this, we can construct microcircuits that look a lot like biological systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Microcircuits are hardly new. These tiny, 4mm square wafers of staggering computing power have become ubiquitous in computers, digital cameras, and mobile phones. They teach cars to tune themselves, and every second globally route billions of e-mail messages.<\/p>\n<p>What is new is programming the ultra-small, ultra-fast, and ultra-efficient silicon microcircuits to mimic biological functions. In his lab, Etienne-Cummings and several graduate students demonstrate just how sensitive some of these sensory systems have become.<\/p>\n<p>On the bench is an experiment exploring the viability of a single chip stereo visual system. It would replace the bulky, analog cameras currently installed on robots to provide visual depth perception. It would do so at a fraction of the size and using a fraction of the energy.<\/p>\n<p>Across the way is a chip-based camera with a shape recognition engine that can be taught to \u201cdeconstruct\u201d an image into its hue, saturation, and intensity, mimicking the way the human eye senses color and shape. The chip-based camera can then store shape templates for later reference and recognition, in effect, a kind of \u201cseeing is believing\u201d intelligence. This technology, developed on a Small Business Innovation Research award to Iguana Robotics, Inc., has applications in interactive toys and aids for the blind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Next Step: Treating Spinal Cord Injuries<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2166\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 260px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20_21labnotes002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2166\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20_21labnotes002.jpg\" alt=\"To replace a robot\u2019s cumbersome analog camera, the research team is developing the technology for a single-chip camera to provide visual depth perception and shape recognition.\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>To replace a robot\u2019s cumbersome analog camera, the research team is developing the technology for a single-chip camera to provide visual depth perception and shape recognition.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As they study the spinal cord of the lamprey eel to better understand how to make robots stand, walk, and run, Etienne-Cummings, his colleagues, and researchers at the University of Maryland also are discovering new ways to treat spinal cord injuries in humans. \u201cThe spinal cord is actually part of the brain,\u201d he explains. \u201cAll the memory, all of the learned structures for walking are in it, even if connections to the cerebral cortex have been severed.\u201d Those learned structures operate like an oscillating circuit, or central pattern generator, which fires neurons in an alternating pattern essential to modulating such actions as walking, swinging arms, and running. The lab\u2019s research team has constructed walking robots with microcircuitry that mimics the central pattern generators found in the human spinal cord.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2165\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 260px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20_21labnotes003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2165\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20_21labnotes003.jpg\" alt=\"Ralph Etienne-Cummings, associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, guides doctoral students Francesco Tenore (center) and Jacob Vogelstein in the Computational Sensory-Motor Systems Laboratory.\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Ralph Etienne-Cummings, associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, guides doctoral students Francesco Tenore (center) and Jacob Vogelstein in the Computational Sensory-Motor Systems Laboratory.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The researchers have \u201ctaught\u201d these robots to walk, stride, run, march, and even to produce a strutting gait they whimsically call \u201cnight on the town.\u201d To aid patients suffering from spinal cord injuries, the researchers envision implantable stimulators that could fire the oscillating circuits of the spinal cord below a break to stimulate movement and, eventually, help facilitate walking.<\/p>\n<p>Creating experimental microcircuits designed on sophisticated, industry-standard software platforms can be expensive. Once a design is complete, it is sent via file transfer protocol (FTP) from the lab to the chip manufacturer. To keep costs down, manufacturers gang many academic projects into single \u201cjobs\u201d and create their chips together. Each chip manufactured this way can cost around $12,000. Compare that to the upwards of $1 million for a single chip that a major technology company might spend. \u201cSo you can see,\u201d Etienne-Cummings observes, \u201cthe corporate world would prefer us to experiment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Johns Hopkins University, says Etienne-Cummings, is the perfect place to conduct his inherently interdisciplinary approach to research. Working with the Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology (ERCCISST), a collaborative inter-university project funded by the National Science Foundation and hosted by Hopkins, he is exploring ways to \u201cimprove the delivery of surgery, and how to give the surgeon information dynamically.\u201d The researchers build sensors that can serve as track tools to assess how well a surgeon is doing. \u201cHopkins has people who were there at the beginning of the neuromorphic engineering explosion,\u201d he says, \u201cand of course, Hopkins has the benefit of a top-ranked medical school.\u201d<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20_21labnotes004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2168\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20_21labnotes004.jpg\" alt=\"20_21labnotes004\" width=\"384\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20_21labnotes004.jpg 384w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20_21labnotes004-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><strong>From Beach to Bench :<\/strong> A native of the Seychelles, an archipelago northwest of Madagascar, Ralph Etienne-Cummings describes his homeland affectionately as the \u201cCaribbean of Europe.\u201d Even in paradise, science and engineering were on the young man\u2019s mind. \u201cPerhaps because the only way to get to and away from the Seychelles was by boat or plane,\u201d he explains, \u201cmy friends and I were very interested in flight.\u201d At one time, he even toyed with the idea of pursuing aeronautical engineering. After attending boarding school in England, Etienne-Cummings at age 18 came to America with his mother and father. As a physics major at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, he learned how transistors work, and then went on to the University of Pennsylvania to study engineering. In 1995, he received his PhD from Penn, with a special interest in integrated circuits. He joined the Whiting School of Engineering in 1998. This June 2003 photo shows some of the reasons he enjoys returning to the Seychelles for a visit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To see more of Ralph Etienne-Cumming\u2019s research projects, including a movie of a running robot, go to etienne.ece.jhu.edu\/~etienne\/ .<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As he programs silicone microcircuits to mimic sensory systems, Ralph Etienne-Cummings keeps his eye on the lamprey eel and the fly. 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