Abstract
As an interdisciplinary field lying at the intersection of biology and robotics, bio-inspired robotics has seen considerable interest from a research, education, and ultimately application perspective. The scope of this interest has ranged from creating and operating walking, crawling, and flying robots based on biological counterparts; to evaluating biological algorithms for potential engineering applications; to deconstructing the functioning of living organisms from the macro- to the microlevels; and ultimately to constructing the next generation of bio-inspired robots from the bottom up. Significant synergies are forthcoming from such an approach, but numerous limitations still exist. We begin with the discussion of general principles behind taking inspiration from a biological source and converting it into implementable engineering concepts using case studies of bird-inspired robots, snake-inspired robots, and mastication robots. These case studies describe how useful features of the biological creatures were selected and simplified so that they can be implemented using the existing technologies.
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Gupta, S.K. et al. (2014). An Engineering Approach to Utilizing Bio-Inspiration in Robotics Applications. In: Goel, A., McAdams, D., Stone, R. (eds) Biologically Inspired Design. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5248-4_10
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