Mining Smartness from Nature -- Committees -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- CHAPTER 1: ALGORITHMS, MECHANISMS AND STRUCTURES IN NATURE AS INSPIRATION TO MIMICKING -- Spider Silk as an Inspiration for Biomimicking -- Approaches to the Construction of the Minimal Cell -- Flight Control of an Insect -- Investigating the Thrust Production of a Myliobatoid-Inspired Oscillating Wing -- Deployable Structures in Plants -- A Bat-Wing Aircraft Using the Smart Joint Mechanism -- Analysis and Optimization-Based Synthesis of Compliant Mechanisms -- CHAPTER 2: BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS -- Fractals to Model Hierarchical Biomaterials -- New Fabrication Process of Nano-Composites by Biomimetic Approach -- Gecko Inspired Suit Could Have you Climbing the Wall -- Effective Impregnation of SiO2 Sol-Gel Solution in Pine Wood and Following Gel Localization in Free Cell Volume -- CHAPTER 3: BIO-INSPIRED SENSORS AND ACTUATORS -- Bioelectronic Detection Schemes for Biomedical and Environmental Sensing -- Towards Biocompatible Sensing Devices: An IPMC Based Artificial Vestibular System -- Double Layer Sensor Reproducing Perception Dynamics of Olfactory Cells -- Determining the Binaural Signals in Bat Echolocation -- Generating Bio-Analogous Recognition of Artificial Materials - Sensors and Electronic Noses for Odours -- A pH-Activated Biomimetic Actuator Derived from McKibben Artificial Muscle Structure -- Mining Smartness from the Hydraulic System of Spiders: A Bioinspired Actuator for Advanced Applications -- CHAPTER 4: BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED SYSTEMS AND ROBOTICS -- Towards In Vivo Nanomachines -- Neuromimetic Robots Inspired by Insect Vision -- CPG Control of a Tensegrity Morphing Structure for Biomimetic Applications -- Biorobots, Nonlinear Dynamics and Perception -- Anthropomorphic Talking Robot Based on Human Biomechanical Structure.

Cyborg MAVs Using Power Harvesting and Behavioral Control Schemes -- Multi-UUVs Team Line Formation Control by a Behaviour-Based Method with Fuzzy Logic Adapters -- Fabrication and Evaluation of Biomimetic Jellyfish Robot Using IPMC -- The Nano and Micromanipulators Based on Magnetic Bacterium -- CHAPTER 5: BIOMIMETIC FLOW CONTROL IN AQUATIC SYSTEMS AND ITS APPLICATION TO BIOINSPIRED AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES -- Vortex Method for the Analysis of Complex, Unsteady and Vortical Flows around a Swimming Fish -- Understanding the Hydrodynamics of Swimming: From Fish Fins to Flexible Propulsors for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles -- Reverse Engineering of Self-Propelled Anguilliform Swimmers -- An Exploration of Passive and Active Flexibility in Biolocomotion through Analysis of Canonical Problems -- Modeling the Dynamics of Human Swimming -- Geometric Mechanics and Aquatic Locomotion through Vortex Shedding -- Vortex Rings in Bio-Inspired and Biological Jet Propulsion -- Fluid-Structure Interactions in Pelagic Trawls and Probable Consequences for the Selectivity of the Fishing Gear -- Hammerhead - A Vision Guided AUV -- Robustness of Biomimetic Underwater Vehicles under Disturbances -- Keywords Index -- Authors Index.