Soft robots and soft bodies: biological insights into the structure and function of fluidic soft robots.

IF 3.1 3区计算机科学 Q1 ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Bioinspiration & Biomimetics Pub Date : 2024-11-14 DOI:10.1088/1748-3190/ad8b8d

Amir Hosein Zamanian, Janice Voltzow

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Abstract

Over the last two decades, robotics engineering has witnessed rapid growth in the exploration and development of soft robots. Soft robots are made of deformable materials with mechanical properties or other features that resemble biological structures. These robots are often inspired by living organisms or mimic their locomotion, such as crawling and swimming. This paper aims to assist researchers in robotics and engineering to design soft robots incorporating or inspired by biological systems with a more informed perspective on biological models and functions. We address the characteristics of fluidic soft robots inspired by or mimicking biological examples, establish a method to categorize soft robots from a functional biological perspective, and provide a wider range of organisms to inspire the development of soft robotics. The actuation mechanisms in bioinspired and biomimetic soft robotics would benefit from a clearer understanding of the underlying principles, organization, and function of biological structures.

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软机器人和软体：对流体软机器人结构和功能的生物学见解。

在过去二十年里，机器人工程学在软机器人的探索和开发方面取得了快速发展。软机器人由可变形材料制成，具有类似生物结构的机械特性或其他特征。这些机器人通常受到生物体的启发，或模仿生物体的运动方式，如爬行和游泳。本文旨在帮助机器人学和工程学研究人员从更了解生物模型和功能的角度出发，设计结合生物系统或受生物系统启发的软体机器人。我们探讨了受生物范例启发或模仿生物范例的流体软机器人的特点，建立了一种从生物功能角度对软机器人进行分类的方法，并提供了更广泛的生物范例来启发软机器人技术的发展。对生物结构的基本原理、组织和功能有更清晰的了解，将有助于生物启发和仿生软机器人的驱动机制。

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来源期刊

Bioinspiration & Biomimetics 工程技术-材料科学：生物材料

CiteScore

5.90

自引率

14.70%

发文量

132

审稿时长

3 months

期刊介绍： Bioinspiration & Biomimetics publishes research involving the study and distillation of principles and functions found in biological systems that have been developed through evolution, and application of this knowledge to produce novel and exciting basic technologies and new approaches to solving scientific problems. It provides a forum for interdisciplinary research which acts as a pipeline, facilitating the two-way flow of ideas and understanding between the extensive bodies of knowledge of the different disciplines. It has two principal aims: to draw on biology to enrich engineering and to draw from engineering to enrich biology. The journal aims to include input from across all intersecting areas of both fields. In biology, this would include work in all fields from physiology to ecology, with either zoological or botanical focus. In engineering, this would include both design and practical application of biomimetic or bioinspired devices and systems. Typical areas of interest include: Systems, designs and structure Communication and navigation Cooperative behaviour Self-organizing biological systems Self-healing and self-assembly Aerial locomotion and aerospace applications of biomimetics Biomorphic surface and subsurface systems Marine dynamics: swimming and underwater dynamics Applications of novel materials Biomechanics; including movement, locomotion, fluidics Cellular behaviour Sensors and senses Biomimetic or bioinformed approaches to geological exploration.