The integration of flexible flow sensors renders Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with a “sixth sense” capability by detecting flow field information, facilitating intelligent navigation especially in visionless environments, similar to how natural creatures navigate. Flexible electronics provide an effective approach for the development of intelligent flexible flow sensors and sensing. Recently, inspired by natural outstanding mechanosensory systems for flow field perception, engineers have been attempting to develop flexible sensors decoding aerodynamic/hydrodynamic information experienced by robots, such as a quadcopter with a sensory system inspired by the mosquito for collision avoidance, and a dual-sensor (pressure/velocity) fusion modality to locate near-field dipole source. Though there are various flexible flow sensors and sensing developed, widely practical applications still face several challenges: 1) sensing performance needs to be improved, from sensitivity, stability, uniformity, etc. 2) the integration capability needs to be enhanced, from multiple sensing modalities, wireless electronics modulus, embedded artificial intelligence algorithms, terminal display platform, etc.
Future flexible flow sensors and sensing technologies require to be more sensitive and robust to capture flow clues in different environments. This Research Topic aims to facilitate the development and application of bio-inspired flexible flow sensors and sensing achieving intelligent navigation for robots, by summarizing current progress, and bringing together biomimetic engineers, biologists, material scientists, sensor specialist, roboticists, etc.
Contributors to this Research Topic are encouraged to explore various themes which include, but are not limited to:
1) Functional materials in bio-inspired flexible flow sensors
2) Flow sensing technologies for improved perception
3) Biomimetic flow sensing strategies
4) Bio-inspired flexible flow sensor development
5) Hydrodynamics/aerodynamics monitoring
6) Intelligent decoding of flow fields
Keywords:
soft sensors, flow field perception, artificial intelligence, robotics, functional materials, hydrodynamics/aerodynamics/hemodynamics monitoring, intelligent life
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
The integration of flexible flow sensors renders Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with a “sixth sense” capability by detecting flow field information, facilitating intelligent navigation especially in visionless environments, similar to how natural creatures navigate. Flexible electronics provide an effective approach for the development of intelligent flexible flow sensors and sensing. Recently, inspired by natural outstanding mechanosensory systems for flow field perception, engineers have been attempting to develop flexible sensors decoding aerodynamic/hydrodynamic information experienced by robots, such as a quadcopter with a sensory system inspired by the mosquito for collision avoidance, and a dual-sensor (pressure/velocity) fusion modality to locate near-field dipole source. Though there are various flexible flow sensors and sensing developed, widely practical applications still face several challenges: 1) sensing performance needs to be improved, from sensitivity, stability, uniformity, etc. 2) the integration capability needs to be enhanced, from multiple sensing modalities, wireless electronics modulus, embedded artificial intelligence algorithms, terminal display platform, etc.
Future flexible flow sensors and sensing technologies require to be more sensitive and robust to capture flow clues in different environments. This Research Topic aims to facilitate the development and application of bio-inspired flexible flow sensors and sensing achieving intelligent navigation for robots, by summarizing current progress, and bringing together biomimetic engineers, biologists, material scientists, sensor specialist, roboticists, etc.
Contributors to this Research Topic are encouraged to explore various themes which include, but are not limited to:
1) Functional materials in bio-inspired flexible flow sensors
2) Flow sensing technologies for improved perception
3) Biomimetic flow sensing strategies
4) Bio-inspired flexible flow sensor development
5) Hydrodynamics/aerodynamics monitoring
6) Intelligent decoding of flow fields
Keywords:
soft sensors, flow field perception, artificial intelligence, robotics, functional materials, hydrodynamics/aerodynamics/hemodynamics monitoring, intelligent life
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.