Bio-Inspired Covert Active Sonar Strategy

Bio-inspired interfacial strengthening strategy through geometrically interlocking designs.

Many biological materials, such as nacre and bone, are hybrid materials composed of stiff brittle ceramics and compliant organic materials. These natural organic/inorganic composites exhibit much enhanced strength and toughness in comparison to their constituents and inspires enormous biomimetic endeavors aiming to synthesize materials with superior mechanical properties. However, most current ...

A Bio-Inspired Hopping Kangaroo Robot with an Active Tail

Inspired by kangaroo’s locomotion, we report on developing a kangaroo-style hopping robot. Unlike bipeds, quadrupeds, or hexapods which alternate the legs for forward locomotion, the kangaroo uses both legs synchronously and generates the forward locomotion by continuous hopping behavior, and the tail actively balances the unwanted angular momentum generated by the leg motion. In this work, we ...

A Bio-inspired Architecture of an Active Visual Search Model

A novel brain inspired cognitive system architecture of an active visual search model is presented. The model is multi-modular consisting of spatial and object visual processing, attention, reinforcement learning, motor plan and motor execution modules. The novelty of the model lies on its decision making mechanisms. In contrast to previous models, decisions are made from the interplay of a win...

Modelling active bio-inspired object recognition in autonomous mobile agents

Bio-Inspired Active Vision Paradigms in Surveillance Applications

Visual perception was described by Marr (1982) as the processing of visual stimuli through three hierarchical levels of computation. In the first level or low-level vision it is performed the extraction of fundamental components of the observed scene such as edges, corners, flow vectors and binocular disparity. In the second level or medium-level vision it is performed the recognition of object...