Biomimicry for Aerospace: Technologies and Applications

Biomimetics in Aerospace: Technologies and Applications focuses on five key technology areas for the broad aerospace and related communities, including Education, Systems Engineering and Design, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Machine Learning, Energy Conversion, Power and Propulsion, Communications, Instrumentation, Robotics and Synthetic Biology, Life in Extreme Environments, and Human Persistence in Space. With contributions from all over the world, readers will get a much broader introduction and deeper dive into the utility of biomimetics to solve a number of technical challenges in aeronautics and space exploration. Presents a series of bio-inspired technologies applicable to the field of aerospace engineeringProvides an introduction to nature-inspired design and engineering and its relevance to planning and developing the next generation of robotic and human space missionsIncludes hot topics such as bioinspired flight simulation, modeling and computation, flight control, and future trends in bioinspired flight INDICE: Introduction: Education, Systems Engineering and Design 1. A brief history of Biomimicry in Aerospace  2. Creating Functional Biomimetic Materials 3. Adapting Biomimicry for Designing Aerospace Materials 4. Design of Soft Machines 5. Introducing Biomimicry to Aerospace Industry 6. Multifunctional Structures and Materials: The Ultimate Biomimicry 7. Nature-Inspired Assembly: Biomimetic Approaches of the MIT Media Lab Space Initiative 8. A Bio-Inspired Design & Space Challenges Cornerstone Project 9. Biomimetic Design Concepts for NASA Zero-Gravity Exercise Devices Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Machine Learning 10. Nature-inspired Artificial Intelligence 11. Cognitive Challenges of Biologically-Inspired Design 12. Limitations of Biomimicry in Artificial Intelligence Research 13. Evolutionary Data Mining in Aerospace 14. An Artificial Brain Mechanism to Develop a Learning Paradigm for Robots 15. Material-integrated Intelligence for Robot Autonomy 16. Swarm intelligence & extended analog computing 17. A stochastic, swarm-based control law for emergent-system-level area coverage by robots 18. Evolving Rule-based, Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) for Decision Support System of Unmanned Air Vehicles Energy Conversion, Power, and Propulsion 19. Propulsion: Options and Issues Considering Biomimicry 20. NASA Hybrid Electric Aircraft Propulsion 21. Cacti, kale, aphids, poison dart frogs and airplane de-icing 22. How seal whiskers suppress vortex structures: Effects of phase shift angle 23. Aerodynamic role and low dimensional analysis of wing surface morphology in bio-inspired flapping flight 24. Entomopter Exploration of Mars 25. Light-trapping in polymer solar cells by processing with nanostructured diatomaceous earth Communications, Instrumentation, and Robotics 26. Snakes in Space: Biomimetic Snake Robots for Extraterrestrial Exploration 27. Parallels in Communication and Navigation Technology and Natural Phenomena 28. Bio-inspired radiofrequency steganography via linear chirp radar signals 29. Animals as models for robot mobility and autonomy: Crawling, walking, running, climbing, and flying 30. Biomimetic Robotics Synthetic Biology, Life in Extreme Env and Human Persistence in Space 31. From geochemistry to biogeochemistry: Origins of life 32. Responsibly Imagined Future and Quantum Biology 33. The limitless potential of mycelium 34. The biomimicry handbook 35. The Ultimate Physiomimetic Machine: A Leap Towards a Self-Replicating Machine for Planetary Colonization 36. Technologies to Enable Human Presence in Extreme Environments 37. A Nature-Inspired Approach to In-Situ Resource Utilization for Water Extraction on Mars 38. Materials and Energy Technologies for Space Exploration and Human Presence into the Solar System: A NASA Retrospective with Ex Post Facto Adherence to Biomimicry 3.8 Life's Principles

• ISBN: 978-0-12-821074-1
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 600
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2021
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés