Bio-inspired Autonomous Enterprise Systems

Autonomous Vehicle Decision-Making: Should We Be Bio-inspired?

On our crowded roads, drivers must compete for space but cooperate to avoid occupying the same space at the same time. Decision-making is strategic and requires mutual understanding of other’s choices. Fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) will need risk management software to make these types strategic decisions without human arbitration. Accidents will occur, and what constitutes rational and ‘safe...

An autonomous flying robot for testing bio-inspired navigation strategies

In this paper, we present our approach to studying bio-inspired navigation strategies on an autonomous flying robot. The robot is a quadrocopter that is based on technology from Mikrokopter and extended with several sensor systems, most of them inspired by sensors that animals use for navigating in their natural environment. Using a light-weight embedded computer from gumstix onboard the copter...

Autonomous self-healing structural composites with bio-inspired design.

Strong and tough natural composites such as bone, silk or nacre are often built from stiff blocks bound together using thin interfacial soft layers that can also provide sacrificial bonds for self-repair. Here we show that it is possible exploit this design in order to create self-healing structural composites by using thin supramolecular polymer interfaces between ceramic blocks. We have built...

Bio-inspired approach for autonomous routing in FMS

Today's mass production strategies are unable to cope with the present needs of the manufacturing industry, which is constantly confronted with changing and increasingly complex product requirements as well as mounting pressure to decrease costs. To meet this challenge, Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) must become more robust, scalable, reconfigurable, dynamic, adaptable and even more flexi...

Modelling active bio-inspired object recognition in autonomous mobile agents