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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Biologically-Inspired Design"”.
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Analogical problem evolution in biologically inspired design
Biologically inspired design (BID) is a widespread and growing movement in modern design, pulled in part by the need for environmentally sustainable design and pushed partly by rapid advances in biology and the desire for creativity and innovation in design. Yet, our current understanding of …
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Biologically Inspired Design of Protein-Silica Hybrid Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery Applications
<p>The design and application of effective drug carriers is a fundamental concern in the delivery of therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and other vexing health problems. Traditionally utilized chemotherapeutics are limited in efficacy due to poor bioavailability as a result of their size and …
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Investigating the Use of Biologically Inspired Design Tools in a Student CubeSat Design Team Through Workshop User Experiences
<p>This thesis investigates the role of Biologically Inspired Design (BID) in satellite engineering and examines how existing BID methods can be introduced into a student CubeSat design context. The study addresses three questions: the current extent of BID applications in satellite engineering, …
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Sensitive skins and somatic processing for affective and sociable robots based upon a somatic alphabet approach
… of the human body. This thesis describes the biologically inspired design of "sensitive skins" for two different robotic platforms: Leonardo, a high degree-of-freedom, sociable robot and the Huggable, a portable therapeutic robotic companion for relational, affective touch. The first step in …
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Insect Inspired Behavioral Strategies for Improving Multi-Agent System Resilience in the Presence of Contagious Faults
… one possible solution space is in the form of Biologically Inspired Design (BID), or the study of nature to apply to engineering. Often BID provides unique and more efficient ways of approaching engineering problems. As such, this dissertation utilizes BID with a focus on insects, which are …
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Development of a Design Tool for Biologically Inspired Fault Adaptive Design by Strategy Mapping
<p>A design tool for Biologically Inspired Fault Adaption that utilizes the concept of strategy mapping was developed and the development process and testing is presented in this paper. The concept of strategy mapping is derived primarily from the field of military theory and supposes that for any …
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Designing Visual Intelligence from Photons to Action
… of natural systems. This thesis explores the design of visual intelligence by integrating insights from both biology and engineering in two complementary parts. In Part I, we computationally recreate the evolution of vision within simulated embodied agents. By evolving the physical and neural …
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BioSENSE: Biologically-inspired Secure Elastic Networked Sensor Environment
… platforms. In this dissertation, we present a Biologically-inspired Secure Elastic Networked Sensor Environment (BioSENSE) that synergistically integrates: (1) a novel bio-inspired construction of adaptable system building components, (2) associative routing framework with extensible adaptable …
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The Role of Sensing Modalities in Shaping Collective Motion and Group Behavior
… behavior of animal groups and inspire innovative designs for artificial systems, leading to better-coordinated and more efficient robotic swarms.</p>