Hojjati Najafabadi, Akbar Amini, Saeid Farahmand, Farzam
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Journal of Bionic Engineering
To help walking, using assistive devices can be considered to reduce the loads caused by weight and to effectively decrease the propulsive forces. In this study, a mobility Saddle-Assistive Device (S-AD) supporting body weight while walking was evaluated on two healthy volunteers. This device is based on the support of body weight against gravity w...
Mohammadi, Maryam Rabiee, Sayed Mahmood Hesaraki, Saeed
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Journal of Bionic Engineering
The effect of concurrent attendance of two inhibitors of bone degradation, namely Alendronate (Ald) sodium trihydrate and Strontium (Sr), on Calcium Phosphate Cement (CPC) characteristics was explored. To this aim, 5 wt% Strontium and 21 mM Alendronate sodium trihydrate were used in calcium phosphate cement and setting time, ion and drug release we...
Zheng, Manxu Qian, Zhihui Zou, Zhenmin Peach, Chris Akrami, Mohammad Ren, Lei
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Journal of Bionic Engineering
Human shoulder joints exhibit stable but highly active characteristics due to a large amount of soft tissues. Finite Element (FE) modelling plays an important role in enhancing our understanding of the mechanism of shoulder disorders. However, the previous FE shoulder models largely neglected the Three-Dimensional (3D) volume of soft tissues and th...
Chen, Daobing Song, Honglie Liu, Qingping Gan, Jie Liu, Yang Chen, Keyu Wang, Chong Wen, Shifeng Zhou, Yan Yan, Chunze
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Journal of Bionic Engineering
Due to its real-time control, high folding ratio, and structure self-locking, flexible large curvature self-folding devices have broad application prospects, such as foldable human implants, flexible electronics, and flexible robots. Driven by this background, flexible large curvature folding butterfly (Polyura eudamippus) proboscises were studied ...
Sysaykeo, Delphine Linares, Jean-Marc Mermoz, Emmanuel
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Journal of Bionic Engineering
Misalignment is one of the most common causes of wear in bush bearings. Design improvements have been proposed by many researchers. Unfortunately, it did not efficiently reduce the misalignment. Classic geometrical designs sometimes reach their limits. For this reason, a bio-inspired design is proposed to solve the impediment. In this article, a bi...
Liu, Wuji Jing, Zhongliang Pan, Han Qiao, Lingfeng Leung, Henry Chen, Wujun
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Journal of Bionic Engineering
Performing complex tasks by soft robots in constrained environment remains an enormous challenge owing to the limitations of flexible mechanisms and control methods. In this paper, a novel biomimetic soft robot driven by Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) with light weight and multi-motion abilities is introduced. We adapt deep learning to perceive irregular...
Wang, Chenyang Zhang, Weiping Zou, Yang Meng, Ran Zhao, Jiaxin Wei, Mingchen
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Journal of Bionic Engineering
Inspired by the unique, agile and efficient flapping flight of insects, we present a novel sub-100 mg, electromagnetically driven, tailless, flapping-wing micro robot. This robot utilizes two optimized electromagnetic actuators placed back to back to drive two wings separately, then kinematics of each wing can be independently controlled, which giv...
Zhang, Yin Zhan, Qiang Li, Ruixin Bao, Xinyu
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Journal of Bionic Engineering
Fingers are the basic components of anthropomorphic hands. At present, most anthropomorphic fingers utilize rigid joints, which have obvious fabrication and assembly complexities as well as limited flexibility and adaptability. Thus, some anthropomorphic fingers were attempted to utilize compliant joints learned from bioinspiration, but they have a...
Aleali, Seyed Ali Bandini, Paola Newtson, Craig Michael
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Journal of Bionic Engineering
This paper describes the bioinspiration process to derive design concepts for new deep foundation systems that have greater axial capacity per unit volume of pile material compared to conventional deep foundations. The study led to bioinspired ideas that provide greater load capacity by increasing the pile shaft resistance. The bioinspiration appro...
Li, Yuzhu Gao, Hang Ma, Yunhai Chen, Donghui
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Journal of Bionic Engineering
The title was incorrect in the published paper and should be revised as “Facile Fabrication of Biomimetic Water Pinning Microstructures on Polyethylene Surfaces with Robust Superhydrophobic Wetting State”.
