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Biomimetic Creatures Teach Mechanical Systems Design

Authors : Matthew A. Estrada, John C. Kegelman, J. Christian Gerdes, Mark R. Cutkosky

Published in: Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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For over a decade, mechanical creatures have formed the basis for the final project in a large engineering class on mechanical systems design. Each year a different real or fictitious animal provides the inspiration and design requirements for synthesizing, fabricating, and analyzing mechanisms and power transmission systems to achieve a plausible biomimetic motion. We explore why biomimetic creatures are particularly suited to learning about mechanisms, and discuss implementation details and pedagogical insights based on our experience.

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Title: Biomimetic Creatures Teach Mechanical Systems Design
Authors: Matthew A. Estrada
John C. Kegelman
J. Christian Gerdes
Mark R. Cutkosky
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-63536-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-63537-8

Copyright Year: 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63537-8_47

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