Paper Info
Title
Michael G. Hinchey: Biological Inspiration.
Abstract
Greater understanding of biology in modern times has enabled significant breakthroughs in improving healthcare, quality of life, and eliminating many diseases and congenital illnesses. Simultaneously there is a move towards emulating nature and copying many of the wonders uncovered in biology, resulting in "biologically inspired" systems. Significant results have been reported in a wide range of areas, with systems inspired by nature enabling exploration, communication, and advances that were never dreamed possible just a few years ago. We warn, that as in many other fields of endeavor, we should be inspired by nature and biology, not engage in mimicry. We describe some results of biological inspiration that augur promise in terms of improving the safety and security of systems, and in developing self-managing systems that we hope will ultimately lead to self-governing systems. We concentrate on the concept of swarm-based exploration missions that will enable NASA to explore space more efficiently and collect data never before available to scientists. We discuss several new self-x properties that will make such missions possible and that will also have application in other areas.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/SASO.2007.38
Cambridge, MA, USA
Keywords
Field
DocType
self-governing system,augur promise,significant breakthrough,michael g. hinchey,congenital illness,greater understanding,modern time,biological inspiration,significant result,new self-x property,swarm-based exploration mission,data security,management system,space missions,computer science,quality of life,systems biology,space exploration,helium
Data science,Data security,Biological inspiration,Computer science,Systems biology,Copying,Space exploration,Artificial intelligence,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-2906-2
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michael G. Hinchey169791.11