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Biomimetics, Volume 9, Issue 3

March 2024 - 70 articles

Cover Story: Exploring the fundamental mechanisms of locomotion goes beyond simulations and models. Physical test benches are crucial to validate hypotheses regarding real-world applications of locomotion. However, the widespread use of robotic test benches is limited by high costs, complex designs, inaccessible materials, and actuation technologies dissimilar to human muscular actuation. To address these challenges, electric–pneumatic actuator (EPA)-driven robots offer cost-effective modular platforms. These robots can explore a wide range of bio-inspired locomotion patterns and investigate the interplay between body morphology and control strategies. View this paper
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Articles (70)

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,547 Views
15 Pages

Stereo Camera Setup for 360° Digital Image Correlation to Reveal Smart Structures of Hakea Fruits

  • Matthias Fischer,
  • Max D. Mylo,
  • Leon S. Lorenz,
  • Lars Böckenholt and
  • Heike Beismann

About forty years after its first application, digital image correlation (DIC) has become an established method for measuring surface displacements and deformations of objects under stress. To date, DIC has been used in a variety of in vitro and in v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,782 Views
21 Pages

A Highly Sensitive Deep-Sea Hydrodynamic Pressure Sensor Inspired by Fish Lateral Line

  • Xiaohe Hu,
  • Zhiqiang Ma,
  • Zheng Gong,
  • Fuqun Zhao,
  • Sheng Guo,
  • Deyuan Zhang and
  • Yonggang Jiang

Hydrodynamic pressure sensors offer an auxiliary approach for ocean exploration by unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs). However, existing hydrodynamic pressure sensors often lack the ability to monitor subtle hydrodynamic stimuli in deep-sea environm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,432 Views
18 Pages

Biocompatible Composite Filaments Printable by Fused Deposition Modelling Technique: Selection of Tuning Parameters by Influence of Biogenic Hydroxyapatite and Graphene Nanoplatelets Ratios

  • Aura-Cătălina Mocanu,
  • Andreea-Elena Constantinescu,
  • Mădălina-Andreea Pandele,
  • Ștefan Ioan Voicu,
  • Robert-Cătălin Ciocoiu,
  • Dan Batalu,
  • Augustin Semenescu,
  • Florin Miculescu and
  • Lucian-Toma Ciocan

The proposed strategy for the extrusion of printable composite filaments follows the favourable association of biogenic hydroxyapatite (HA) and graphene nanoplatelets (GNP) as reinforcement materials for a poly(lactic acid) (PLA) matrix. HA particles...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,531 Views
30 Pages

The severe effects of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) among adolescents can be prevented by timely identification and prompt therapeutic intervention. Traditional diagnostic techniques are complicated and time-consuming because they a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,073 Views
38 Pages

Feature selection aims to select crucial features to improve classification accuracy in machine learning and data mining. In this paper, a new binary grasshopper optimization algorithm using time-varying Gaussian transfer functions (BGOA-TVG) is prop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,673 Views
37 Pages

A Novel Artificial Electric Field Algorithm for Solving Global Optimization and Real-World Engineering Problems

  • Abdelazim G. Hussien,
  • Adrian Pop,
  • Sumit Kumar,
  • Fatma A. Hashim and
  • Gang Hu

The Artificial Electric Field Algorithm (AEFA) stands out as a physics-inspired metaheuristic, drawing inspiration from Coulomb’s law and electrostatic force; however, while AEFA has demonstrated efficacy, it can face challenges such as converg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,338 Views
15 Pages

Extension of the Voronoi Diagram Algorithm to Orthotropic Space for Material Structural Design

  • Pavel Bolshakov,
  • Nikita Kharin,
  • Alexander Agathonov,
  • Evgeniy Kalinin and
  • Oskar Sachenkov

Nowadays, the interaction of additive technologies and methods for designing or optimizing porous structures has yielded good results. Construction with complex microarchitectures can be created using this approach. Varying the microarchitecture lead...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,282 Views
15 Pages

Many insects are able to walk vertically or upside down on both hard and soft surfaces. In beetles such as the ladybird (Coccinella septempunctata), intermolecular forces between tarsal setae on the footpads of the insects make this movement possible...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,463 Views
15 Pages

The Functions of Phasic Wing-Tip Folding on Flapping-Wing Aerodynamics

  • Yiming Li,
  • Keyu Li,
  • Fang Fu,
  • Yao Li and
  • Bing Li

Insects produce a variety of highly acrobatic maneuvers in flight owing to their ability to achieve various wing-stroke trajectories. Among them, beetles can quickly change their flight velocities and make agile turns. In this work, we report a newly...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
9,781 Views
22 Pages

Effect of Immediate Dentin Sealing on the Bonding Performance of Indirect Restorations: A Systematic Review

  • Fusun Ozer,
  • Zeynep Batu Eken,
  • Jessica Hao,
  • Nuray Tuloglu and
  • Markus B. Blatz

The popular immediate dentin sealing (IDS) technique is used to improve the bond strength of indirect restorations. This systematic review assessed whether bond strength is affected by the type of aging conditions, bonding agents, flowable resin comp...

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