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Towards autonomous locomotion: CPG-based control of smooth 3D slithering gait transition of a snake-like robot.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Apr 4, 2017
Snake-like robots with 3D locomotion ability have significant advantages of adaptive travelling in diverse complex terrain over traditional legged or wheeled mobile robots. Despite numerous developed gaits, these snake-like robots suffer from unsmoot...
Animals Models, Theoretical Robotics Biomimetic Materials Locomotion Snakes Equipment Design Gait Biomimetics
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An aerodynamic model for insect flapping wings in forward flight.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Mar 31, 2017
This paper proposes a semi-empirical quasi-steady aerodynamic model of a flapping wing in forward flight. A total of 147 individual cases, which consisted of advance ratios J of 0 (hovering), 0.125, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1 and  ∞, and angles of attack α o...
Equipment Design Models, Biological Rotation Biomechanical Phenomena Animals Robotics Manduca Biomimetics Flight, Animal Wings, Animal
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A bio-inspired electrocommunication system for small underwater robots.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Mar 29, 2017
Weakly electric fishes (Gymnotid and Mormyrid) use an electric field to communicate efficiently (termed electrocommunication) in the turbid waters of confined spaces where other communication modalities fail. Inspired by this biological phenomenon, w...
Animal Communication Hydrodynamics Electric Fish Immersion Robotics Animals Electrodes Equipment Design Water Biomimetics Biomimetic Materials
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Using insects to drive mobile robots - hybrid robots bridge the gap between biological and artificial systems.

Arthropod structure & development Mar 18, 2017
The use of mobile robots is an effective method of validating sensory-motor models of animals in a real environment. The well-identified insect sensory-motor systems have been the major targets for modeling. Furthermore, mobile robots implemented wit...
Animals Robotics Bombyx Models, Biological Odorants Biomimetics
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Hybrid parameter identification of a multi-modal underwater soft robot.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Feb 28, 2017
We introduce an octopus-inspired, underwater, soft-bodied robot capable of performing waterborne pulsed-jet propulsion and benthic legged-locomotion. This vehicle consists for as much as 80% of its volume of rubber-like materials so that structural f...
Biomimetic Materials Algorithms Octopodiformes Computer Simulation Equipment Design Animals Biomimetics Robotics Swimming Least-Squares Analysis
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Bioinspired Robotic Fingers Based on Pneumatic Actuator and 3D Printing of Smart Material.

Soft robotics Feb 23, 2017
In this article, we have proposed a novel robotic finger design principle aimed to address two challenges in soft pneumatic grippers-the controllability of the stiffness and the controllability of the bending position. The proposed finger design is c...
Elastic Modulus Humans Printing, Three-Dimensional Robotic Surgical Procedures Robotics Biomimetics Equipment Design Polyesters
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Performance of an insect-inspired target tracker in natural conditions.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Feb 16, 2017
Robust and efficient target-tracking algorithms embedded on moving platforms, are a requirement for many computer vision and robotic applications. However, deployment of a real-time system is challenging, even with the computational power of modern h...
Robotics Neurons Biomimetics Biomimetic Materials Taxis Response Odonata Algorithms Animals Computer Systems
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Image Classification Using Biomimetic Pattern Recognition with Convolutional Neural Networks Features.

Computational intelligence and neuroscience Feb 16, 2017
As a typical deep-learning model, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) can be exploited to automatically extract features from images using the hierarchical structure inspired by mammalian visual system. For image classification tasks, traditional CN...
Biomimetics Humans Animals Pattern Recognition, Automated Image Processing, Computer-Assisted Neural Networks, Computer Diagnostic Imaging
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A review of compliant transmission mechanisms for bio-inspired flapping-wing micro air vehicles.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Feb 15, 2017
Flapping-wing micro air vehicles (FWMAVs) are a class of unmanned aircraft that imitate flight characteristics of natural organisms such as birds, bats, and insects, in order to achieve maximum flight efficiency and manoeuvrability. Designing proper ...
Biomimetics Insecta Biomimetic Materials Flight, Animal Wings, Animal Computer Simulation Equipment Design Animals Aircraft Robotics Models, Biological
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The effect of leg compliance in multi-directional jumping of a flea-inspired mechanism.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Feb 10, 2017
Inspired by the relationship between leg compliance and jumping performance in the false stick insect, this paper describes how variations in leg compliance and jumping direction affect the performance of a flea-inspired jumping mechanism. The amount...
Robotics Biomimetics Biomimetic Materials Locomotion Energy Transfer Siphonaptera Efficiency Lower Extremity Muscle, Skeletal Biomechanical Phenomena Animals Algorithms
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