Acoustic Panels Inspired by Nature

Nature-inspired Acoustic Sensor Projects

The following pages describe our nature-inspired, or biomimetic, sonars. The biological features incorporated in our sonars include: 1. Binaural reception for accurate bearing determination. 2. Wide bandwidth pulses for object recognition. 3. Echo-controlled sensor mobility. 4. Separate transmitter and receivers for sensitivity of low-level echoes from close-by objects. 5. Nonlinear signal proc...

ACOustic: A Nature-Inspired Exploration Indicator for Ant Colony Optimization

A statistical machine learning indicator, ACOustic, is proposed to evaluate the exploration behavior in the iterations of ant colony optimization algorithms. This idea is inspired by the behavior of some parasites in their mimicry to the queens' acoustics of their ant hosts. The parasites' reaction results from their ability to indicate the state of penetration. The proposed indicator solves th...

Swarm Robotics: Collective Behavior Inspired by Nature

Swarm robotics is a new approach to the coordination of multirobot systems which consist of a number of simple physical robots [1]. It is supposed that a desired collective behavior emerges from the interaction between the robots and the interaction of robots with the environment. This approach emerged in the field of artificial swarm intelligence as well as the biological study of insects, ant...

Structure-switching biosensors: inspired by Nature.

Chemosensing in nature relies on biomolecular switches, biomolecules that undergo binding-induced changes in conformation or oligomerization to transduce chemical information into specific biochemical outputs. Motivated by the impressive performance of these natural 'biosensors,' which support continuous, real-time detection in highly complex environments, significant efforts have gone into the...

Lactic Acid Efficient disinfection inspired by nature