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A biomimetic underwater vehicle actuated by waves with ionic polymer-metal composite soft sensors.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Sep 28, 2015
The ionic polymer-metal composite (IPMC) is a soft material based actuator and sensor and has a promising potential in underwater application. This paper describes a hybrid biomimetic underwater vehicle that uses IPMCs as sensors. Propelled by the en...
Biomimetics Ions Rheology Hydrodynamics Electric Power Supplies Water Movements Transducers Equipment Failure Analysis Hardness Equipment Design Polymers Motion Ships Computer-Aided Design Elastic Modulus Energy Transfer Manufactured Materials Metals Robotics
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Effect of bladder wall thickness on miniature pneumatic artificial muscle performance.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Sep 28, 2015
Pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) are actuators known for their high power to weight ratio, natural compliance and light weight. Due to these advantages, PAMs have been used for orthotic devices and robotic limbs. Small scale PAMs have the same adv...
Biomimetics Artificial Organs Computer-Aided Design Muscle, Skeletal Miniaturization Stress, Mechanical Muscle Contraction Computer Simulation Elastomers Pressure Equipment Failure Analysis Elastic Modulus Robotics Equipment Design Models, Biological
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Modelling cephalopod-inspired pulsed-jet locomotion for underwater soft robots.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Sep 28, 2015
Cephalopods (i.e., octopuses and squids) are being looked upon as a source of inspiration for the development of unmanned underwater vehicles. One kind of cephalopod-inspired soft-bodied vehicle developed by the authors entails a hollow, elastic shel...
Rheology Swimming Equipment Failure Analysis Elastic Modulus Animal Shells Cephalopoda Equipment Design Models, Biological Ships Biomimetics Computer Simulation Animals Computer-Aided Design Robotics
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3D printing antagonistic systems of artificial muscle using projection stereolithography.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Sep 9, 2015
The detailed mechanical design of a digital mask projection stereolithgraphy system is described for the 3D printing of soft actuators. A commercially available, photopolymerizable elastomeric material is identified and characterized in its liquid an...
Humans Animals Muscle, Skeletal Printing, Three-Dimensional Elastomers Stress, Mechanical Biomimetic Materials Photography Equipment Failure Analysis Robotics Equipment Design Biomimetics Artificial Organs Elastic Modulus
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Texture recognition and localization in amorphous robotic skin.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Sep 9, 2015
We present a soft robotic skin that can recognize and localize texture using a distributed set of sensors and computational elements that are inspired by the Pacinian corpuscle, the fast adapting, uniformly spaced mechanoreceptor with a wide receptiv...
Equipment Failure Analysis Skin Physiological Phenomena Hardness Vibration Skin, Artificial Elastic Modulus Robotics Mechanotransduction, Cellular Touch Equipment Design Pacinian Corpuscles Humans Transducers Biomimetics Machine Learning Pressure Animals
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Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization Approach for Cost-Based Feature Selection in Classification.

IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics Sep 4, 2015
Feature selection is an important data-preprocessing technique in classification problems such as bioinformatics and signal processing. Generally, there are some situations where a user is interested in not only maximizing the classification performa...
Models, Statistical Biomimetics Pattern Recognition, Automated Crowding Machine Learning Algorithms Computer Simulation
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Slithering towards autonomy: a self-contained soft robotic snake platform with integrated curvature sensing.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Sep 3, 2015
Soft robotic snakes promise significant advantages in achieving traveling curvature waves with a reduced number of active segments as well as allowing for safe and adaptive interaction with the environment and human users. However, current soft robot...
Computer-Aided Design Robotics Equipment Design Gait Models, Biological Machine Learning Computer Simulation Animals Equipment Failure Analysis Systems Integration Motion Feedback, Physiological Biomimetics Spatial Navigation Sensation Snakes Pressure
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Towards biological plausibility of electronic noses: A spiking neural network based approach for tea odour classification.

Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society Aug 24, 2015
The paper presents a novel encoding scheme for neuronal code generation for odour recognition using an electronic nose (EN). This scheme is based on channel encoding using multiple Gaussian receptive fields superimposed over the temporal EN responses...
Electronic Nose Neural Networks, Computer Odorants Nose Algorithms Biomimetics Tea Olfactory Perception Equipment Design Normal Distribution
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Anthropomorphic finger antagonistically actuated by SMA plates.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Aug 20, 2015
Most robotic applications that contain shape memory alloy (SMA) actuators use the SMA in a linear or spring shape. In contrast, a novel robotic finger was designed in this paper using SMA plates that were thermomechanically trained to take the shape ...
Humans Transducers Muscle Contraction Biomimetics Elastic Modulus Muscle, Skeletal Robotics Stress, Mechanical Hot Temperature Equipment Design Fingers Alloys Equipment Failure Analysis
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Minimal feedback to a rhythm generator improves the robustness to slope variations of a compass biped.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Aug 20, 2015
In recent years there has been a growing interest in the field of dynamic walking and bio-inspired robots. However, while walking and running on a flat surface have been studied extensively, walking dynamically over terrains with varying slope remain...
Biological Clocks Humans Biomimetics Computer Simulation Computer-Aided Design Leg Feedback, Physiological Models, Neurological Spatial Navigation Robotics Central Pattern Generators Gait
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