Biomimetics: forecasting the future of science, engineering, and medicine

Abstract

Biomimetics is the study of nature and natural phenomena to understand the principles of underlying mechanisms, to obtain ideas from nature, and to apply concepts that may benefit science, engineering, and medicine. Examples of biomimetic studies include fluid-drag reduction swimsuits inspired by the structure of shark’s skin, velcro fasteners modeled on burrs, shape of airplanes developed from the look of birds, and stable building structures copied from the backbone of turban shells. In this article, we focus on the current research topics in biomimetics and discuss the potential of biomimetics in science, engineering, and medicine. Our report proposes to become a blueprint for accomplishments that can stem from biomimetics in the next 5 years as well as providing insight into their unseen limitations.

Hybrid State Constraint Adaptive Disturbance Rejection Controller for a Mobile Worm Bio-Inspired Robot

“…The maximum allowed switching time is introduced here in order to have a tracking trajectory independent safety condition that can turn off the WBRD if the switching condition is not attained in a reasonable period. Notice that the switching condition introduces a class of a non-constant sampling discrete state which depends on the accomplishment of the condition provided in (1).…”

“…The main objective of bio-mimetics is to find a practical solution of human needs imitating models or movements of animals or even plants. One of its main applications can be found in the field of robotics [1]. The development of bio-inspired robotic systems involves the adaptation of different modes of locomotion like the running inspired in leopards [2], swimming inspired in fishes [3], climbing like gecko robots [4], or crawling by worms [5,6], among others.…”

Comparative Modeling the Thermal Transfer in Tissues with Volume Pathological Focuses and Tissue Engineering Constructs: a Pilot Study

“…However, most studies usually focus on the structural biomimetics, which implied the restoration of the required functional characteristics after remodeling TEC in native host tissue (O'Brien, 2011;. This explains the comparative scarcity of works devoted to the analysis of the recovery of the functional status of an implantation region in the dynamics (Lu et al, 2013;Hwang et al, 2015). Typically, this analysis is carried out using specially designed options, which were not directly determined by real biochemical and physiological processes in the place of TEC installation (Guliak et al, 2014).…”

Production Technology and Physicochemical Properties of Composition Containing Surfactant Proteins

“…We are now actively developing technologies of the creation and production of synthetic lubricants and their modifications to apply in different lines of industry, agriculture, medicine and veterinary medicine. Talking about the necessity to provide the contact of lubricant with biological objects, we find the biomimetic approach most effective, as it involves the production and application of the lubricants, which properties are maximally close to natural (Wang, 2014;Hwang et al, 2015;Park et al, 2016). One of the most promising sources of natural lubricants are surfactant mixtures produced from mammals' lung containing specific surfactant proteins (SP) and phospholipids (Sarker et al, 2011;Casals, Cañadas, 2012;Schenck, Fiegel, 2016).…”