Biologically inspired herding of animal groups by robots

A single sheepdog can bring together and manoeuvre hundreds of sheep from one location to another. Engineers and ecologists are fascinated by this sheepdog herding because of the potential it provides for ‘bio-herding’: a biologically inspired herding of animal groups by robots. Although many herding algorithms have been proposed, most are...

Morphing wing design using integrated and distributed trailing edge morphing

The presented study investigates the design and development of an autonomous morphing wing concept developed in the scope of the SmartX project, which aims to demonstrate in-flight performance optimisation with active morphing. To progress this goal, a novel distributed morphing concept with six translation induced camber morphing trailing...

A lightweight cart frame design that makes use of topology optimization

Topology optimization is a bio-inspired optimization method based on the growth of bones. With this method, the optimal material distribution with the minimal amount of material for a product can be defined. This could help engineers to create innovative lightweight designs and get rid of benchmark and pervious design on which current designs...

A power-aware fault-tolerant hardware system for a custom reconfigurable platform

Electronics systems in deep-submicron era face many new challenges. Increased intricacy of the manufacturing process will likely to increase the manufacturing defect while testing of those effect will be very challenging. Smaller feature size will also face new reliability issues due to phenomenas such as Joule heating and electromigration....