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Bio-Inspired Vision-Based Leader-Follower Formation Flying in the Presence of Delays [PDF]

open access: yesRobotics, 2016
Flocking starlings at dusk are known for the mesmerizing and intricate shapes they generate, as well as how fluid these shapes change. They seem to do this effortlessly.
John Oyekan
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Challenges of rock drilling and opportunities from bio-boring

open access: yesBiogeotechnics, 2023
Drilling plays a significant role in the history of human civilization. The exploration of greater depths, extreme environments, or hazardous areas calls for more energy-efficient and high levels of autonomous drilling technologies with reduced cost and ...
Yumeng Zhao, Sheng Dai
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BioForm – learning at the intersection of science and design

open access: yesDearq, 2020
Our future designers have much to learn from the complex and highly functional systems found in nature. Creating design products that are not only human-centred but also in tune with the natural world requires our designers to be exposed to natural ...
Damian Palin   +4 more
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A review of bio-inspired geotechnics-perspectives from geomaterials, geo-components, and drilling & excavation strategies

open access: yesBiogeotechnics, 2023
As urbanization progresses, the demand for high-rise buildings and underground spaces is growing, and the need for firm geotechnical construction materials, efficient excavation methods, accurate testing instruments, and innovative geotechnical ...
Wengang Zhang   +3 more
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Book Titled Autonomic Networking-on-Chip: Bio-Inspired Specification, Development, and Verification: An Introduction

open access: yesEAI Endorsed Transactions on Context-aware Systems and Applications, 2015
Despite the growing mainstream importance and unique advantages of autonomic networking-onchip (ANoC) technology, Autonomic Networking-On-Chip: Bio-Inspired Specification, Development, and Verification is among the first books to evaluate research ...
Phan Cong Vinh
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CMOS Architectures and circuits for high-speed decision-making from image flows [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
We present architectures, CMOS circuits and CMOS chips to process image flows at very high speed. This is achieved by exploiting bio-inspiration and performing processing tasks in parallel manner and concurrently with image acquisition.
Alba, Luis   +8 more
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Cross-Scale Cost Aggregation for Stereo Matching [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Human beings process stereoscopic correspondence across multiple scales. However, this bio-inspiration is ignored by state-of-the-art cost aggregation methods for dense stereo correspondence.
Dongbo Min   +6 more
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A Fish Rheotaxis Mechanism as a Zero-Order Optimization Strategy

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2023
Animal navigation has been an invaluable source of inspiration for designing different engineering solutions ranging from optimization strategies to control solutions for complex systems.
Daniel Burbano, Farzad Yousefian
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Hydraulic fracturing in cells and tissues: fracking meets cell biology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The animal body is fundamentally made of water. A small fraction of this water is freely flowing in blood and lymph, but most of it is trapped in hydrogels such as the extracellular matrix (ECM), the cytoskeleton, and chromatin.
Arroyo Balaguer, Marino   +1 more
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Transient bio-inspired gliders with embodied humidity responsive actuators for environmental sensing

open access: yesFrontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022
Collecting temporal and spatial high-resolution environmental data can guide studies in environmental sciences to gain insights in ecological processes.
Fabian Wiesemüller   +11 more
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