Biomimicry for Aerospace: Technologies and Applications

The growing science of biomimicry focuses on what humanity can learn from the natural world. For example, mosquitos can teach us to make hypodermic needles, jet engines can learn from harbor seal whiskers, and cacti may show us how to extract water from Mars. Biomimetics in Aerospace: Technologies and Applications focuses on five key technology areas for the broad aerospace and related communities: Education, Systems Engineering and Design; Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Machine Learning; Energy Conversion, Power, and Propulsion; Communications, Instrumentation, and Robotics; and Synthetic Biology, Life in Extreme Environments & Human Persistence in Space. With contributions from all over the world, readers will get a much broader introduction and deeper dive into the utility of biomimetics to solve a number of technical challenges in aeronautics and space exploration.