ArticleRoyal Society open science2018
Autonomously shaping natural climbing plants: a bio-hybrid approach.
Article in Royal Society open science, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- A Minimally Invasive Approach Towards "Ecosystem Hacking" With Honeybees.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2022Article
- Freshwater organisms potentially useful as biosensors and power-generation mediators in biohybrid robotics.Biological cybernetics · 2021Article
- Social Integrating Robots Suggest Mitigation Strategies for Ecosystem Decay.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2021Article
- Plant Bioinspired Ecological Robotics.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2020Article
- Constructing living buildings: a review of relevant technologies for a novel application of biohybrid robotics.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2019Article
- Autonomously shaping natural climbing plants: a bio-hybrid approach.Royal Society open science · 2018Article
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Abstract
Plant growth is a self-organized process incorporating distributed sensing, internal communication and morphology dynamics. We develop a distributed mechatronic system that autonomously interacts with natural climbing plants, steering their behaviours to grow user-defined shapes and patterns. Investigating this bio-hybrid system paves the way towards the development of living adaptive structures and grown building components. In this new application domain, challenges include sensing, actuation and the combination of engineering methods and natural plants in the experimental set-up. By triggering behavioural responses in the plants through light spectra stimuli, we use static mechatronic nodes to grow climbing plants in a user-defined pattern at a two-dimensional plane. The experiments show successful growth over periods up to eight weeks. Results of the stimuli-guided experiments are substantially different from the control experiments. Key limitations are the number of repetitions performed and the scale of the systems tested. Recommended future research would investigate the use of similar bio-hybrids to connect construction elements and grow shapes of larger size.
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