Establishing Analogy Categories for Bio-Inspired Design

Bio-inspired robot design for legged locomotion

Mobile robot designers are increasingly searching for inspirations and design cues from biological models. Although animals are great model for mobile robots, the process of implementation is often ambiguous. The direct implementation of biological features and morphology often becomes ineffective and misleads engineers due to various reasons. Firstly, engineers investigate animals to achieve a...

BioConstructs - Methods for Bio - Inspired and Bio - Fabricated Design

Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 BioConstructs Innovation in the use of computation and digital fabrication methods Collaboration with scientific community Bio-inspired design and biofabrication Thesis structure Chapter 2: The Polypterus study 2.

Bio-inspired Design of Intelligent Materials

Several examples of sensors and actuators inherent in biological species are reviewed with emphasis on their mechanisms for a given set of stimuli. Examples include, action plants (Venus flytrap, Cucumber tendrils) and bamboo, and algae. Based on theses examples and their mechanisms, we designed artificial actuators, FGM piezo actuators and electroactive polymer actuators.

Adhesion design maps for bio-inspired attachment systems.

Fibrous surface structures can improve the adhesion of objects to other surfaces. Animals, such as flies and geckos, take advantage of this principle by developing "hairy" contact structures which ensure controlled and repeatable adhesion and detachment. Mathematical models for fiber adhesion predict pronounced dependencies of contact performance on the geometry and the elastic properties of th...

Architectures and design methodologies for bio-inspired computing machines