TY - JOUR
T1 - A system-of-systems bio-inspired design process
T2 - Conceptual design and physical prototype of a reconfigurable robot capable of multi-modal locomotion
AU - Tan, Ning
AU - Sun, Zhenglong
AU - Mohan, Rajesh Elara
AU - Brahmananthan, Nishann
AU - Venkataraman, Srinivasan
AU - Sosa, Ricardo
AU - Wood, Kristin
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by the Temasek Project (grant number IGDST1301018) at SUTD, Singapore, and partially supported by the 100-Talent startup grant of Sun Yat-sen University and the fundamental research project (grant number JCYJ20170818104502599) of Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission, China.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2019 Tan, Sun, Mohan, Brahmananthan, Venkataraman, Sosa and Wood. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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MDTHM_EVT
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Modern engineering problems require solutions with multiple functionalities in order to meet their practical needs to handle a variety of applications in different scenarios. Conventional design paradigms for single design purpose may not be able to satisfy this requirement efficiently. This paper proposes a novel system-of-systems bio-inspired design method framed in a solution-driven bio-inspired design paradigm. The whole design process consists of eight steps, that is, (1) biological solutions identification, (2) biological solutions definition/champion biological solutions, (3) principle extraction from each champion biological solution, (4) merging of extracted principles, (5) solution reframing, (6) problem search, (7) problem definition, and (8) principles application & implementation. The steps are elaborated and a case study of reconfigurable robots is presented following these eight steps. The design originates from the multimodal locomotion capabilities of two species (i.e., spiders and primates) and is analyzed based on the Pugh analysis. The resulting robotic platform could be potentially used for urban patrolling purposes.
AB - Modern engineering problems require solutions with multiple functionalities in order to meet their practical needs to handle a variety of applications in different scenarios. Conventional design paradigms for single design purpose may not be able to satisfy this requirement efficiently. This paper proposes a novel system-of-systems bio-inspired design method framed in a solution-driven bio-inspired design paradigm. The whole design process consists of eight steps, that is, (1) biological solutions identification, (2) biological solutions definition/champion biological solutions, (3) principle extraction from each champion biological solution, (4) merging of extracted principles, (5) solution reframing, (6) problem search, (7) problem definition, and (8) principles application & implementation. The steps are elaborated and a case study of reconfigurable robots is presented following these eight steps. The design originates from the multimodal locomotion capabilities of two species (i.e., spiders and primates) and is analyzed based on the Pugh analysis. The resulting robotic platform could be potentially used for urban patrolling purposes.
KW - Bio-inspired design
KW - Mobile robotics
KW - Multi-model locomotion
KW - Reconfigurable robots
KW - System-of-systems
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U2 - 10.3389/fnbot.2019.00078
DO - 10.3389/fnbot.2019.00078
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85073214922
SN - 1662-5218
VL - 13
JO - Frontiers in Neurorobotics
JF - Frontiers in Neurorobotics
M1 - 78
ER -