AIMC Topic: Biomimetic Materials

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Soft Biomimetic Fish Robot Made of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators.

Soft robotics Jun 29, 2018
This article presents the design, fabrication, and characterization of a soft biomimetic robotic fish based on dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) that swims by body and/or caudal fin (BCF) propulsion. BCF is a promising locomotion mechanism that p...
Models, Biological Fishes Elastomers Swimming Animals Robotics Equipment Design Biomimetic Materials Hydrodynamics
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Neuromorphic computing with multi-memristive synapses.

Nature communications Jun 28, 2018
Neuromorphic computing has emerged as a promising avenue towards building the next generation of intelligent computing systems. It has been proposed that memristive devices, which exhibit history-dependent conductivity modulation, could efficiently r...
Animals Models, Neurological Action Potentials Unsupervised Machine Learning Humans Neural Networks, Computer Electric Conductivity Electronics Synapses Biomimetic Materials
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Modeling of dielectric elastomer oscillators for soft biomimetic applications.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Jun 26, 2018
Biomimetic, entirely soft robots with animal-like behavior and integrated artificial nervous systems will open up totally new perspectives and applications. However, until now, most presented studies on soft robots were limited to only partly soft de...
Biomimetic Materials Bionics Models, Theoretical Computer Simulation Robotics Models, Biological Biomechanical Phenomena Equipment Design Electronics Animals Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted Biomimetics Elastomers
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Achieving bioinspired flapping wing hovering flight solutions on Mars via wing scaling.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Jun 26, 2018
Achieving atmospheric flight on Mars is challenging due to the low density of the Martian atmosphere. Aerodynamic forces are proportional to the atmospheric density, which limits the use of conventional aircraft designs on Mars. Here, we show using n...
Animals Robotics Models, Biological Biomimetics Computer Simulation Biomechanical Phenomena Flight, Animal Wings, Animal Extraterrestrial Environment Mars Bees Biomimetic Materials Space Flight Space Simulation
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Locomotion of arthropods in aquatic environment and their applications in robotics.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics May 8, 2018
Many bio-inspired robots have been developed so far after careful investigation of animals' locomotion. To successfully apply the locomotion of natural counterparts to robots for efficient and improved mobility, it is essential to understand their pr...
Aquatic Organisms Biomimetics Surface Properties Swimming Biomimetic Materials Locomotion Wings, Animal Arthropods Water Robotics Equipment Design Models, Biological Computer Simulation Animals
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Design and evaluation of a deformable wing configuration for economical hovering flight of an insect-like tailless flying robot.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Apr 18, 2018
Studies on wing kinematics indicate that flapping insect wings operate at higher angles of attack (AoAs) than conventional rotary wings. Thus, effectively flying an insect-like flapping-wing micro air vehicle (FW-MAV) requires appropriate wing design...
Biomechanical Phenomena Animals Robotics Equipment Design Models, Biological Biomimetics Insecta Biomimetic Materials Computer Simulation Models, Anatomic Flight, Animal Wings, Animal
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Design and analysis of coiled fiber reinforced soft pneumatic actuator.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Apr 18, 2018
Fiber reinforced elastomeric enclosures (FREEs) are soft pneumatic actuators that can contract and generate forces upon pressurization. Typical engineering applications utilize FREEs in their straight cylindrical configuration and derive actuation di...
Crutches Equipment Design Models, Biological Computer Simulation Elastomers Orthotic Devices Biomechanical Phenomena Biomimetic Materials Exoskeleton Device Animals Biomedical Engineering Robotics Humans Elastic Modulus
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A dual caudal-fin miniature robotic fish with an integrated oscillation and jet propulsive mechanism.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Mar 27, 2018
This paper presents the development of a biomimetic robotic fish that uses an integrated oscillation and jet propulsive mechanism to enable good swimming performance for small robotic fish. The designed robotic fish is driven by two caudal fins that ...
Swimming Biomimetic Materials Animal Fins Models, Biological Fishes Biomimetics Biomechanical Phenomena Animals Robotics Equipment Design Computer Simulation
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Mimicking Biological Synaptic Functionality with an Indium Phosphide Synaptic Device on Silicon for Scalable Neuromorphic Computing.

ACS nano Jan 17, 2018
Neuromorphic or "brain-like" computation is a leading candidate for efficient, fault-tolerant processing of large-scale data as well as real-time sensing and transduction of complex multivariate systems and networks such as self-driving vehicles or I...
Synapses Silicon Crystallization Biomimetic Materials Bionics Equipment Design Neural Networks, Computer Indium Semiconductors Phosphines Biomimetics
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Spiking Neural Classifier with Lumped Dendritic Nonlinearity and Binary Synapses: A Current Mode VLSI Implementation and Analysis.

Neural computation Dec 8, 2017
We present a neuromorphic current mode implementation of a spiking neural classifier with lumped square law dendritic nonlinearity. It has been shown previously in software simulations that such a system with binary synapses can be trained with struc...
Semiconductors Nonlinear Dynamics Synapses Pattern Recognition, Automated Metals Neural Networks, Computer Biomimetic Materials Computers Models, Neurological Electrical Equipment and Supplies Animals Action Potentials Dendrites Oxides
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