Effective locomotion at multiple stride frequencies using proprioceptive feedback on a legged microrobot.

abstract：:Numerical simulations are conducted to investigate the influences of a solid wall on the self-propelled swimming of a flexible plunging foil. It is found that the presence of a solid wall enhances the cruising speed, with the cost of increasing input power. Rigid foil can achieve high percentage increase in cruising s...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Dai L,He G,Zhang X

更新日期：2016-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Unidirectional composites inspired from biological materials such as nacre are composed of stiff platelets arranged in a staggered manner within a soft matrix. Elaborate analyses have been conducted on the aforementioned composites and they are found to have excellent mechanical properties like stiffness, strength and...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Tapse S,Anup S

更新日期：2017-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Films of conducting polymers when used as electrodes in an electrolytic solution oxidize and reduce under the flow of anodic and cathodic currents, respectively. The electrochemical reactions induce conformational movements of the chains, generation or destruction of free volume and interchange of ions and solvent wit...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Otero TF

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Birds demonstrate that flapping-wing flight (FWF) is a versatile flight mode, compatible with hovering, forward flight and gliding to save energy. This extended flight domain would be especially useful on mini-UAVs. However, design is challenging because aerodynamic efficiency is conditioned by complex movements of th...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： de Margerie E,Mouret JB,Doncieux S,Meyer JA

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on quadrupedal robots inspired by canids or felids have been widely reported and demonstrated. However, none of these legged robots can deal with difficult environments that include water, such as small lakes, streams, rain, mud, flooded terrain, etc. In this paper, we present for the first time a kinematic a...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Li Y,Fish F,Chen Y,Ren T,Zhou J

更新日期：2019-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Passive dynamic walking is a model that walks down a shallow slope without any control or input. This model has been widely used to investigate how humans walk with low energy consumption and provides design principles for energy-efficient biped robots. However, the basin of attraction is very small and thin and has a...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Okamoto K,Aoi S,Obayashi I,Kokubu H,Senda K,Tsuchiya K

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural fish have evolved with an excellent swimming performance after millions of years. Based on the flexible features of the pectoral fin, this paper focuses on the kinematics and hydrodynamics of the fin when fish are swimming stably in still water in labriform mode. The locomotion mechanism based on the morpholog...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Weng J,Zhu Y,Du X,Yang G,Hu D

更新日期：2019-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Burst-and-coast swimming is an intermittent mode of locomotion used by various fish species. The intermittent gait has been associated with certain advantages such as stabilizing the visual field, improved sensing ability, and reduced energy expenditure. We investigate burst-coast swimming in rummy nose tetra fish (He...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Ashraf I,Van Wassenbergh S,Verma S

更新日期：2020-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In a lower extremity musculoskeletal leg, the actuation kinematics define the interaction of the actuators with each other and the environment. Design of such a kinematic chain is challenging due to the existence of the redundant biarticular actuators which simultaneously act on two joints, generating a parallel mecha...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Nejadfard A,Schütz S,Mianowski K,Vonwirth P,Berns K

更新日期：2019-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymer nanocomposites render a range of outstanding materials from natural products such as silk, sea shells and bones, to synthesized nanoclay or carbon nanotube reinforced polymer systems. In contrast to the fast expanding interest in this type of material, the fundamental mechanisms of their mixing, phase behavior...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Xiao S,Peter C,Kremer K

更新日期：2016-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Aiming to produce bioinspired impact and puncture resistant materials, the mesocarp of the Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) was characterized. The mesocarp composition was investigated by chemical extraction and its microstructure was analyzed by optical microscopy and microtomography (microCT). A compression test ev...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Sonego M,Fleck C,Pessan LA

更新日期：2019-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation aspects of a polycrystalline self-assembled bioceramic leading to the nucleation of hard-tissue mineral from a supersaturated solution are discussed. Scanning electron imaging and surface-sensitive interrogations of the nucleated mineral indicated the presence of an intermediate amorphous layer encompass...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Karlinsey RL,Yi K,Duhn CW

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, the effect of torso flexibility on the energetics of quadrupedal bounding is examined in a template setting. Two reductive sagittal-plane models, one with a rigid, non-deformable torso and one with a flexible, unactuated torso are proposed. Both models feature non-trivial leg mass and inertia to capture...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Cao Q,Poulakakis I

更新日期：2015-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The axonemal micro-machinery, the axial skeleton and actuator of cilia and flagella of eukaryotic cells, is able to bend and twist and generates wave trains. We already demonstrated that it can be the template to construct an active trunk robot (Cibert 2013 Bioinspir. Biomim. 8 026006). The work presented in this pape...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Cibert C

更新日期：2016-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to their visual sense, weakly electric fish use active electrolocation to detect and analyse objects in their nearby environment. Their ability to generate and sense electric fields combined with scanning-like swimming movements are intended to extract further parameters like the size, shape and material p...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Wolf-Homeyer S,Engelmann J,Schneider A

更新日期：2018-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Birds fly in dynamic flight conditions while maintaining aerodynamic efficiency. This agility is in part due to specialized feather systems that function as flow control devices during adverse conditions such as high-angle of attack maneuvers. In this paper, we present an engineered three-dimensional leading-edge devi...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Ito MR,Duan C,Wissa AA

更新日期：2019-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:While insect grooming has been observed and documented for over one hundred years, we present the first quantitative analysis of this highly dynamic process. Pollinating insects, like honey bees, purposely cover themselves with millions of pollen particles that, if left ungroomed, would make sensing and controlled fli...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Amador GJ,Matherne M,Waller D,Mathews M,Gorb SN,Hu DL

更新日期：2017-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In the field of human motor control, the motor synergy hypothesis explains how humans simplify body control dimensionality by coordinating groups of muscles, called motor synergies, instead of controlling muscles independently. In most applications of motor synergies to low-dimensional control in robotics, motor syner...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Fu KC,Dalla Libera F,Ishiguro H

更新日期：2015-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The propulsive dynamics of a flexible undulating foil in a self-propelled swimming configuration near a wall is studied experimentally. Measurements of the swimming speed and the propulsive force are presented, together with image acquisition of the kinematics of the foil and particle image velocimetry (PIV) in its wa...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Fernández-Prats R,Raspa V,Thiria B,Huera-Huarte F,Godoy-Diana R

更新日期：2015-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper provides an update on the neural control of bipedal walking in relation to bioinspired models and robots. It is argued that most current models or robots are based on the construct of a symmetrical central pattern generator (CPG). However, new evidence suggests that CPG functioning is basically asymmetrical...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Duysens J,Forner-Cordero A

更新日期：2018-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Leading-edge tubercles on a humpback whale flipper are known to enhance its hydrodynamic performance at post-stall angles of attack (Miklosovic et al 2004 Phys. Fluids 16 39-42). We investigate vortical structures above a three-dimensional wing with tubercles using surface-oil-flow visualization and particle image vel...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Kim H,Kim J,Choi H

更新日期：2018-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper introduces a novel, bioinspired manipulator for minimally invasive surgery (MIS). The manipulator is entirely composed of soft materials, and it has been designed to provide similar motion capabilities as the octopus's arm in order to reach the surgical target while exploiting its whole length to actively i...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Ranzani T,Gerboni G,Cianchetti M,Menciassi A

更新日期：2015-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioinspiration-using insights into the function of biological systems for the development of new engineering concepts-is already a successful and rapidly growing field. However, only a small portion of the world's biodiversity has thus far been considered as a potential source for engineering inspiration. This means t...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Müller R,Abaid N,Boreyko JB,Fowlkes C,Goel AK,Grimm C,Jung S,Kennedy B,Murphy C,Cushing ND,Han JP

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Biologically inspired robots with inherent softness and body compliance increasingly attract attention in the field of robotics. Aimed at solving existing problems with soft robots, regarding actuation technology and biological principles, this paper presents a soft bio-inspired annelid robot driven by dielectric elas...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Xu L,Chen HQ,Zou J,Dong WT,Gu GY,Zhu LM,Zhu XY

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we study the behavioral response of rats to a robotic rat during multi-rat interaction. Experiments are conducted in an open-field where a robotic rat called WR-5 is put together with three laboratory rats. WR-5 is following one rat (target), while avoiding the other two rats (outside observers) during ...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Shi Q,Ishii H,Tanaka K,Sugahara Y,Takanishi A,Okabayashi S,Huang Q,Fukuda T

更新日期：2015-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we describe the first steps in the design of a synthetic biological system based on the use of genetically modified bacteria to detect elevated pressures in soils and respond by cementing soil particles. Such a system might, for example, enable a self- constructed foundation to form in response to load ...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Dade-Robertson M,Mitrani H,Corral JR,Zhang M,Hernan L,Guyet A,Wipat A

更新日期：2018-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose to design a small-size transmission-coupled antenna array, and corresponding radiation pattern, having high performance inspired by the female Ormia ochracea's coupled ears. For reproduction purposes, the female Ormia is able to locate male crickets' call accurately despite the small distance between its ea...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Akçakaya M,Nehorai A

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is of interest to exploit the insight from the lateral line system of fish for flow sensing applications. In this paper, a novel fish canal lateral line-inspired pressure difference sensor is proposed by embedding an ionic polymer-metal composite (IPMC) sensor within a canal filled with viscous fluid. Such a sensor...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Sharif MA,Tan X

更新日期：2019-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is the biomimetic optimisation of branched fibre-reinforced composites based on the detailed analysis of biological concept generators. The methods include analyses of the functional morphology and biomechanics of arborescent monocotyledons and columnar cacti as well as measurements and modelling...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Masselter T,Hesse L,Böhm H,Gruhl A,Schwager H,Leupold J,Gude M,Milwich M,Neinhuis C,Speck T

更新日期：2016-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Over many decades the biological surfaces of aquatic swimmers have been studied for their potential as drag reducing surfaces. The hydrodynamic benefit of riblets, or grooves embedded parallel to the flow which appear on surfaces such as shark skin, have been well documented. However the skin of dolphins is embedded w...

journal_title：Bioinspiration & biomimetics

authors： Lang AW,Jones EM,Afroz F

更新日期：2017-02-10 00:00:00