Maintaining constant communication between mobile entities distributed across a large geographical area is a crucial task for many commercial and military applications. For example when troops are deployed in hostile or sensor deprived environments, maintaining radio contact with a base station would increase the efficiency of coordinating the deployment, yet maintaining communications should n...

A bio-inspired neurodynamics based path-following controller of underactuated autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) in the presence of ocean current is proposed. A kind of bio-inspired neurodynamics model and the backstepping path-following controller are combined in this paper. The bio-inspired neurodynamics model is applied to generate smooth forward and angular velocities, so that the sharp sp...

Shaping ceramics into complex and intricate geometries using cost-effective processes is desirable in many applications but still remains an open challenge. Inspired by plant seed dispersal units that self-fold on differential swelling, we demonstrate that self-shaping can be implemented in ceramics by programming the material's microstructure to undergo local anisotropic shrinkage during heat ...

Capturing and rendering an image that fulfills the observer’s expectations is a difficult task. This is due to the fact that the signal reaching the eye is processed by a complex mechanism before forming a percept, whereas a capturing device only retains the physical value of light intensities. It is especially difficult to render complex scenes with highly varying luminances. For example, a pi...

The paper describes Neural Modeling Fields (NMF) for object perception, a bio-inspired paradigm. I discuss previous difficulties in object detection and recognition, and describe how NMF overcomes this difficulties. Neural and mathematical mechanisms are described and future research directions outlined. I. PAST DIFFICULTIES, COMPLEXITY AND LOGIC Biological object perception involves signals fr...

The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is to find a Hamiltonian tour of minimal length on a fully connected graph. The TSP is a NP-Complete, and there is no polynomial algorithm to find the optimal result. Many bio-inspired algorithms has been proposed to address this problem. Generally, generic algorithm (GA), ant colony optimization (ACO) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) are three typical ...

Sense and avoid capability enables insects to fly versatilely and robustly in dynamic complex environment. Their biological principles are so practical and efficient that inspired we human imitating them in our flying machines. In this paper, we studied a novel bio-inspired collision detector and its application on a quadcopter. The detector is inspired from LGMD neurons in the locusts, and mod...

A t the turn of the nineteenth century, Pieter Harting and George Rainey laid the foundations of a science called “synthetic morphology”1. The inspiration for the name probably came from Wöhler’s discovery of urea synthesis in 1828, a breakthrough commonly perceived to mark the beginning of synthetic organic chemistry. The primary goal of Harting and Rainey’s synthetic morphology was to explain...