Biomimetic Ciliary Propulsion: Soft Robotic Actuation and Morphological Control KU Leuven
This research studies a biomimetic ciliary propulsion system, based on an array of independent pneumatically-actuated soft artificial cilia. The design of the system takes into account the characteristic nonreciprocal motions of biological cilia such as the spatial asymmetry of the single cilium motion and the metachronal wave effect of the whole cilia array. These motions are needed in order to generate a net fluid flow at low Reynolds ...