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Preface |
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Part One Principles and Materials for Biomimetic Technologies |
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1 Synthesis of molecular biomimetics |
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1.3 Bottom-up arrangement |
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1.4 Supramolecular organization |
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1.5 Conclusions and perspectives |
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2 Bio-inspired fiber composites |
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2.3 Sources of bio-inspiration |
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2.4 Multifunctional bio-inspired composites |
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2.5 Difficulties in applying bio-inspiration to composites: the case of superhydrophobicity |
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2.6 Conclusions and future perspectives |
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3 Solving the bio-machine interface---a synthetic biology approach |
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3.2 Definition of the bio-machine interface |
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3.3 Historical perspective |
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3.5 Difficulties in addressing the bio-electronic interface |
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3.6 Synthetic biology applied to the bio-electronic interface |
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3.7 Genetic programs that perform signal processing |
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3.8 Optogenetics for interfacing cells/tissue with machines |
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Part Two Bio-Inspired Sensors |
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4 Biomimetic tactile sensing |
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4.3 Biomimetic artificial touch |
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4.4 Case study of tactile sensing technology: the POSFET device |
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4.5 Other examples of bio-inspired tactile sensing |
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5 Bio-inspired hair-based inertial sensors |
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5.2 Hair structures for inertial sensing |
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5.3 Cricket-inspired accelerometer |
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5.4 Fly-inspired gyroscope |
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5.5 Bio-inspiration continued |
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6 Artificial olfactory sense and recognition system |
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6.2 The human olfactory sense and creating common perceptions of odors |
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6.3 The olfactory sensor system for the e-nose |
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6.4 Olfactory classification---data processing |
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7 Bio-inspired engineered sonar systems based on the understanding of bat echolocation |
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7.4 Bio-inspired sonar applications |
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7.5 Summary and conclusions |
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Part Three Biomimetic Actuators |
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8 Conducting interpenetrating polymer networks actuators for biomimetic vision system |
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8.2 Interpenetrated polymer network as solid polymer electrolyte |
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8.3 Conducting interpenetrating polymer networks actuators |
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8.4 Biomimetic vision systems |
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9 Self-oscillating polymer gels as novel biomimetic materials |
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9.2 Design of self-oscillating polymer gel |
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9.3 Control of self-oscillating chemomechanical behaviors |
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9.4 Design of biomimetic soft actuators |
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9.5 Design of autonomous mass transport systems |
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9.6 Self-oscillating fluids |
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10 Biomimetic muscle---The slipping/sliding friction mechanism (SFM) for dynamic agile animal robots |
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10.1 The need for a biomimetic muscle |
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10.2 Review of biomimetic artificial muscles |
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10.3 Reasons for the inadequate performance of existing biomimetic muscles |
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10.4 Theory and definitions |
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10.5 Working principle of biological skeletal muscle |
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10.6 Modeling skeletal muscle |
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10.7 Description of the SFM |
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10.9 SFM basic control methodology |
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10.10 Conclusions and future work |
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Part Four Applications of Biomimetic Technologies |
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11 Artificial intelligence through symbolic connectionism---A biomimetic rapprochement |
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11.2 It is a question of language |
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11.3 Localist symbolic connectionism |
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11.4 Distributed symbolic connectionism |
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11.5 Symbolic connectionism in biological models |
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12 Implementation of biomimetic central pattern generators on field-programmable gate array |
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12.2 State of the art on CPG implementation |
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12.3 Stakes and challenges |
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13 Bio-inspired multi-robot systems |
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13.3 Ant-inspired multi-robot coordination |
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13.4 Bee-inspired multi-robot coordination |
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14 Bio-inspired climbing robots |
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14.2 Bio-inspired adhesion technologies |
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14.3 Bio-inspired locomotion mechanisms |
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14.4 Size and current technology constrains |
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15 Locomotion rhythm generation using pulse-type hardware neural networks for quadruped robots |
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15.2 Quadruped robot system |
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15.3 Mechanical components of the quadruped robot |
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15.4 Electrical components of the quadruped robot |
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16 Biologically inspired antenna array design using Ormia modeling |
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16.2 Biologically inspired coupled antenna array for DOA estimation |
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16.3 Biologically inspired coupled antenna beam pattern design |
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Appendix A Definition of block matrix operators |
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Appendix B Computation of the electromagnetic coupling matrix C |
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References |
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Index |
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