Bio-inspired Wrinkle Processing toward Superhydrophobic Surface

Toward human interaction with bio-inspired teams

Although much work has been done on designing autonomy and user interfaces for managing small teams of independent robots, much less is known about managing large-scale bio-inspired robot (BIRT) teams. In this paper, we explore human interaction with BIRT teams in an information foraging task. We summarize results from two small experiments that use two types of BIRT teams in a foraging task. T...

Bio-Inspired Polymer Membrane Surface Cleaning

To generate polyethersulfone membranes with a biocatalytically active surface, pancreatin was covalently immobilized. Pancreatin is a mixture of digestive enzymes such as protease, lipase, and amylase. The resulting membranes exhibit self-cleaning properties after “switching on” the respective enzyme by adjusting pH and temperature. Thus, the membrane surface can actively degrade a fouling laye...

Toward bio-inspired information processing with networks of nano-scale switching elements

Unconventional computing explores multi-scale platforms connecting molecular-scale devices into networks for the development of scalable neuromorphic architectures, often based on new materials and components with new functionalities. We review some work investigating the functionalities of locally connected networks of different types of switching elements as computational substrates. In parti...

Toward Evolving Neural Networks using Bio-Inspired Algorithms

The SWarm Intelligence-based Reinforcement Learning (SWIRL) method is proposed in this paper to efficiently generate Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based solutions to various problems. Basically, two swarm intelligence based algorithms are combined together in SWIRL to train the ANN models. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is applied to optimize ANN topology, while Particle Swarm Optimization (PS...

Bio-Inspired Computing Systems Toward Novel Computational Architectures