Intelligent and Bionic Transmission in Machinery

Dear Colleagues,

 

This Special Issue is devoted to the application of intelligent and bionic transmission in various research fields. This mainly includes the research fields of bionic transmission, bionic materials, bionic control, intelligent materials and structures, and intelligent control. Bionic transmission is generally understood through the study of biological body structure, imitating the organism or a part of it to construct a mechanical transmission device, where the mechanical transmission device and the organism have similar structure and function. Material bionics considers the production of mechanical materials from the perspective of biological functions, through the study of the material structure and formation process of some organisms to imitate their characteristics in design, in order to produce materials with special strength, toughness, and particular biological characteristics. Bionic control includes bionic control based on behavior, bionic control based on nervous system, bionic control based on genetic algorithm, and bionic control based on swarm, among others. Intelligent materials and structures refer to the integration of a driver, sensor, and micro-processing control system with a parent material. In addition to having the carrying capacity of ordinary materials, intelligent materials can also perceive and process internal and external information, which is a kind of artificial imitation of biological intelligence. Intelligent control is a new technology which can complete preset control tasks of the system autonomously without intervention, representing a shift of the system’s control mode from ordinary automatic control to a more advanced intelligent control. In the future, intelligent and bionic transmission will have a variety of applications in aviation, military, disaster relief, anti-terrorism rescue, biomedical engineering, micro-mechanical systems, agriculture, and other aspects. In the above fields, mainly because of technical problems in production, some structure, function, and regulation mechanisms of organisms are studied and simplified, then the corresponding physical and mathematical models are established, and then numerical simulation analysis is carried out. Finally, the required physical model is prepared for experimental verification.

Prof. Dr. Jing Wei
Guest Editor

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