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Distributed flow sensing for closed-loop speed control of a flexible fish robot.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Oct 23, 2015
Flexibility plays an important role in fish behavior by enabling high maneuverability for predator avoidance and swimming in turbulent flow. This paper presents a novel flexible fish robot equipped with distributed pressure sensors for flow sensing. ...
Biological Clocks Equipment Failure Analysis Transducers Animals Feedback, Physiological Fishes Computer-Aided Design Elastic Modulus Biomimetics Robotics Rheology Equipment Design Swimming
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Microstructural view of burrowing with a bioinspired digging robot.

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics Oct 22, 2015
RoboClam is a burrowing technology inspired by Ensis directus, the Atlantic razor clam. Atlantic razor clams should only be strong enough to dig a few centimeters into the soil, yet they burrow to over 70 cm. The animal uses a clever trick to achieve...
Bivalvia Animals Motion Time Factors Biomimetics Robotics
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Real time unsupervised learning of visual stimuli in neuromorphic VLSI systems.

Scientific reports Oct 14, 2015
Neuromorphic chips embody computational principles operating in the nervous system, into microelectronic devices. In this domain it is important to identify computational primitives that theory and experiments suggest as generic and reusable cognitiv...
Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted Animals Biomimetics Pattern Recognition, Automated Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted Computer Systems Equipment Failure Analysis Humans Unsupervised Machine Learning Photic Stimulation Neural Networks, Computer Equipment Design Visual Perception
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The effect of aspect ratio on the leading-edge vortex over an insect-like flapping wing.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Oct 9, 2015
Insect wing shapes are diverse and a renowned source of inspiration for the new generation of autonomous flapping vehicles, yet the aerodynamic consequences of varying geometry is not well understood. One of the most defining and aerodynamically sign...
Insecta Robotics Rheology Computer Simulation Models, Biological Equipment Failure Analysis Stress, Mechanical Animals Shear Strength Flight, Animal Viscosity Computer-Aided Design Biomimetics Wings, Animal
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Extracting motor synergies from random movements for low-dimensional task-space control of musculoskeletal robots.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Oct 8, 2015
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 o...
Arm Muscle Contraction Movement Feedback, Physiological Robotics Postural Balance Models, Biological Biomimetics Computer Simulation Models, Statistical Muscle, Skeletal Humans
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Principles of appendage design in robots and animals determining terradynamic performance on flowable ground.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Oct 8, 2015
Natural substrates like sand, soil, leaf litter and snow vary widely in penetration resistance. To search for principles of appendage design in robots and animals that permit high performance on such flowable ground, we developed a ground control tec...
Models, Biological Motion Biomimetics Rheology Robotics Equipment Design Gait Equipment Failure Analysis Extremities Computer Simulation Animals Computer-Aided Design
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Effects of non-uniform stiffness on the swimming performance of a passively-flexing, fish-like foil model.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Oct 8, 2015
Simple mechanical models emulating fish have been used recently to enable targeted study of individual factors contributing to swimming locomotion without the confounding complexity of the whole fish body. Yet, unlike these uniform models, the fish b...
Robotics Models, Biological Fishes Shear Strength Computer Simulation Animals Biomimetics Stress, Mechanical Rheology Viscosity Swimming Elastic Modulus Animal Fins
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Imparting protean behavior to mobile robots accomplishing patrolling tasks in the presence of adversaries.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Oct 8, 2015
Providing unpredictable trajectories for patrol robots is essential when coping with adversaries. In order to solve this problem we developed an effective approach based on the known protean behavior of individual prey animals-random zig-zag movement...
Adaptation, Physiological Escape Reaction Computer Simulation Animals Models, Statistical Models, Biological Robotics Motion Biomimetics Predatory Behavior
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A minimum attention control law for ball catching.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Oct 6, 2015
Digital implementations of control laws typically involve discretization with respect to both time and space, and a control law that can achieve a task at coarser levels of discretization can be said to require less control attention, and also reduce...
Algorithms Computer Simulation Computer-Aided Design Models, Neurological Humans Athletic Performance Baseball Feedback, Physiological Motion Perception Robotics Attention Biomimetics Arm
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Behavior modulation of rats to a robotic rat in multi-rat interaction.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Sep 28, 2015
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 (t...
Adaptation, Physiological Robotics Biomimetics Social Behavior Rats, Long-Evans Behavior, Animal Recognition, Psychology Animals Man-Machine Systems Male Rats
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