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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Bioinspiration"”.
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Cuticular surface structures of insects: a source of bioinspiration for novel hydrophobic designs and materials
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Glycoprotein mimetic materials - synthetic methods and study of viral inhibition properties
… on the planet and is a promising source of bioinspiration. The high molecular weight and glycosylation of mucin-type glycopeptides make them challenging to produce or even mimic. This material production challenge is one of the key limiting factors for the study and design of biological …
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Novel Bioinspired Pumping Models for Microscale Flow Transport
Bioinspiration and biomimetics are two increasingly important fields in applied science and mechanics that seek to imitate systems or processes in nature to design improved engineering devices. Here, we are inspired and motivated by microscale internal flow transport phenomena in insect tracheal …
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Bio-Inspired Textiles: a poetic approach to raise awareness about air quality at home
… via a design brief as part of a course on bioinspiration. Analysis of the data collected in the form of students’ projects and feedback forms confirmed their applicability in design and revealed the challenges that occurred in this practical application. The research contributes to the …
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Irradiation effects on geopolymer and additively manufactured 316H stainless steel and porosity in equine hoof wall
… resistance, and equine hoof walls serving as bioinspiration for impact-resistant materials designs. First, I explored a potassium-based geopolymer implanted with Ti+ ions to simulate neutron irradiation as a concrete alternative for nuclear facilities. Post-irradiation, the geopolymer showed a …
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Trajectory Optimisation Inspired Design for Legged Robotics
… an “optimisation-inspired” approach (akin to “bioinspiration”) was taken to identify heuristics and trends for a monopod robot. Initially, optimal trajectories for a two link leg monopod were analysed. Interestingly, during the stance phase, the axial force of the leg behaved in a “bang-bang” …
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Robotic Eavesdropping: Effects of Bioinspired Acoustic Sensing on Tracking and Estimation
… available to the eavesdropping bat. Taking bioinspiration from these suggested abilities, we seek to explore the question of how fusing active and passive ultrasonic sensing may effect the information available to a robotic vehicle. Our first investigation was an experimental verification of …
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Geraniaceae seed-inspired soft robots for environmental actuation and sensing
… organisms rather than directly copying them. Bioinspiration requires a multidisciplinary effort and aims to create robots that can navigate complex real-world environments without simplifications. It will necessitate a reevaluation of robot design, encompassing both physical and cognitive …
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Modifiable Stability and Maneuverability of High Speed Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) Through Bioinspired Control Fins
Underwater Vehicles generally have control fins located only near their aft end, for making controllable changes in directions. This design allows for stability of control; but, the turns are typically large in comparison to the vehicle’s body length. Some bony fish, such as tuna, however, have …
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Micro- and nanoscale features of insect cuticle and their impacts on wetting, friction, and optical properties
The surface of insect cuticle is often modified to form various unique structures such as setae, microtrichia, nanopillars, sculpticells, or gratings. The adaptive roles of these cuticular architectures have become a recent area of interest, notably to serve as inspiration for the creation of novel …
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Location Finding in Natural Environments with Biomimetic Sonar and Deep Learning
Bats are famous for their capability of navigating in dense forests for hundreds of kilometers within one night by using their sonar system. Airborne sonar hasn't been heavily used in the industrial world compared to other sensors such as lidar, radar, and cameras. In this study, we applied a …
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Tree-Inspired Water Harvesting
In this work, we were motivated to develop novel devices for water harvesting inspired by natural trees, and to understand their collection efficiency and working principles. We accomplished that with scale-model and large-scale fog harps, floating leaves, and synthetic trees. Fluids mechanics, …
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Out of the dirt: Fabrication of cicada-inspired nanostructured engineered surfaces and the assessment of their antibacterial properties
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Novel Legged Robots with a Serpentine Robotic Tail: Modeling, Control, and Implementations
Tails are frequently utilized by animals to enhance their motion agility, dexterity, and versatility, such as a cheetah using its tail to change its body orientation while its legs are all off the ground and a monkey using its tail to stabilize its locomotion on branches. However, limited by …
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Biologically Inspired Engineering for Protein Stabilisation
Every year millions of lives are saved by vaccination and millions more could be saved with more efficient vaccination coverage. Thermostability of vaccines is one of the major reasons why many children who need vaccines most do not get all the shots they need. Vaccines need to be kept below 8°C …
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A foundation for perception in autonomous systems = Fundamentos de la percepción en sistemas autónomos
… to currently unsolved technical problems. Bioinspiration has existed in engineering since ancient times; perhaps the most known example is the study of the wings of birds in order to build flying artefacts. More recently and related to this work, specific approaches have led to biologically …
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Uso del poliuretano, para la absorción de compuestos contaminantes con base a la bioinspiración de la esponja de mar para mitigar el impacto ambiental en las fuentes hídricas de la localidad de Barrios Unidos de la ciudad de Bogotá
Los daños ambientales que han generado los compuestos contaminantes en extensiones de suelos, mar, ríos y quebradas en diferentes zonas del país, especialmente en Tumaco, zonas del bajo Cauca y Santander, han sido significativos (Galindo, 2015). Sin embargo, al final, sea cual sea el origen, los …