AIMC Topic: Biomimetic Materials

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Shape memory materials for electrically-powered soft machines.

Journal of materials chemistry. B May 6, 2020
Soft robots represent an emerging class of biologically-inspired machines that are primarily composed of elastomers, fluids, and other forms of soft matter. Current examples include crawling and swimming robots that exhibit the mobility, mechanical c...
Humans Elastomers Biomimetic Materials Smart Materials Animals Robotics
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Ratchet-integrated pneumatic actuator (RIPA): a large-stroke soft linear actuator inspired by sarcomere muscle contraction.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Mar 25, 2020
Pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) have a wide range of robotics applications, especially in soft robots, for their ability to generate linear force and displacement with the soft, lightweight, compact, and safe characteristics as well as high power...
Humans Algorithms Muscle Contraction Biomimetic Materials Robotics Biomechanical Phenomena Sarcomeres Equipment Design Animals
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Development of a biomimetic scallop robot capable of jet propulsion.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Mar 20, 2020
Inspired by a scallop's strong underwater propulsion mechanism, we designed and prototyped a scallop robot capable of clapping and swimming. In this work, an artificial velum was used to work as a check valve to stimulate the robot's swimming. A coup...
Robotics Equipment Design Swimming Biomechanical Phenomena Animals Pectinidae Biomimetic Materials Hydrodynamics
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Design and development of the efficient anguilliform swimming robot- MAR.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Mar 3, 2020
Propulsion of swimming robots at the surface and underwater is largely dominated by rotary propellers due to high thrust, but at the cost of low efficiency. Due to their inherently high speed turning motion, sharp propeller blades and generated noise...
Biomimetic Materials Eels Equipment Design Swimming Animals Robotics
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Bio-inspired neuromuscular reflex based hopping controller for a segmented robotic leg.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Feb 24, 2020
It has been shown that human-like hopping can be achieved by muscle reflex control in neuromechanical simulations. However, it is unclear if this concept is applicable and feasible for controlling a real robot. This paper presents a low-cost two-segm...
Robotics Feasibility Studies Motion Biomimetic Materials Models, Biological Humans Computer Simulation Leg Reflex
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CFD based parameter tuning for motion control of robotic fish.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Feb 24, 2020
After millions of years of evolution, fishes have been endowed with agile swimming ability to accomplish various behaviourally relevant tasks. In comparison, robotic fish are still quite poor swimmers. One of the unique challenges facing robotic fish...
Biomimetic Materials Hydrodynamics Computer Simulation Biomechanical Phenomena Animals Motion Robotics Fishes Gait Swimming
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Design and modeling of a high-load soft robotic gripper inspired by biological winding.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Feb 14, 2020
The improvement of the load capacity of soft robotic grippers has always been a challenge. The load improvement methods of existing soft robotic grippers mainly include the development of soft actuators with high output force and the creation of clos...
Hand Strength Robotics Biomimetic Materials Mechanical Phenomena Equipment Design Animals Models, Theoretical
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Self-Regulating Plant Robots: Bioinspired Heliotropism and Nyctinasty.

Soft robotics Jan 28, 2020
Self-regulation (or so-called homeostasis) is a property of all living organisms to maintain an internal stable state through specialized biofeedback mechanisms under varying external and internal conditions. Although these feedback mechanisms in liv...
Phototropism Plant Leaves Biomimetic Materials Robotics Sunlight
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A bioinspired analogous nerve towards artificial intelligence.

Nature communications Jan 14, 2020
A bionic artificial device commonly integrates various distributed functional units to mimic the functions of biological sensory neural system, bringing intricate interconnections, complicated structure, and interference in signal transmission. Here ...
Bionics Touch Perception Neural Networks, Computer Nerve Fibers Biosensing Techniques Humans Artificial Intelligence Biomimetic Materials Robotics Algorithms Touch
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Cuneate spiking neural network learning to classify naturalistic texture stimuli under varying sensing conditions.

Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society Dec 9, 2019
We implemented a functional neuronal network that was able to learn and discriminate haptic features from biomimetic tactile sensor inputs using a two-layer spiking neuron model and homeostatic synaptic learning mechanism. The first order neuron mode...
Touch Neural Networks, Computer Surface Properties Machine Learning Biomimetic Materials
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