Bioinspired devices : emulating nature's assembly and repair process / Eugene C. Goldfield.
Goldfield, Eugene Curtis, author.
2018
R856 .G66 2018eb
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Title Bioinspired devices : emulating nature's assembly and repair process / Eugene C. Goldfield.
Author Goldfield, Eugene Curtis, author.
ISBN 9780674981928 (electronic book)
0674981928 (electronic book)
9780674967946
0674967941
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
Copyright ©2018
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvi, 459 pages) : illustrations
Call Number R856 .G66 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 610.28
Summary A goal of clinicians is to restore the body and brain function of an individual who has suffered injury and loses capabilities such as walking, using the hands, speaking, remembering, and planning ahead. There is great optimism within the clinical community that we may be able to use scientific principles and new technologies to restore lost function in these individuals. A goal of this book is to integrate advances in neuroscience, integrative biology, biomechanics, developmental science, computer science, and engineering to bring us closer to the vision of devices that harness neuroplasticity for restoring lost function. The book presents a bio-inspired approach to developing such devices. A bio-inspired device is a system whose design and manufacture are based upon the principles by which living systems build. The sources of inspiration for this new generation of devices include how cells form functional systems and organs, how systems maintain stability despite a constant turnover of materials, how system components may participate in different functions, and how biological systems evolve, develop, and learn.-- Provided by publisher.
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Part I. Biological inspiration from nature's building and repair processes: Bioinspired devices as parts of complex systems
How nature builds: physical law, morphogenesis, and dynamical systems
What nature builds: materials and devices
Building devices the way that nature does
Part II. Structure-function, development, and vulnerabilities of nervous systems: Nature's nervous system networks
Human nervous system: development and vulnerability
How nature remodels and repairs neural circuits
Part III. Understanding and emulating nature's response to injury or damage: Neuroprosthetics: the embodiment of devices
Neurorehabilitation for remodeling and repairing injured nervous systems
Toward devices that are seamless parts of collective, adaptive, and emergent systems.

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