A Parallel Modular Biomimetic Cilia Sorting Platform.

ABSTRACT: The aquatic unicellular organism Paramecium caudatum uses cilia to swim around its environment and to graze on food particles and bacteria. Paramecia use waves of ciliary beating for locomotion, intake of food particles and sensing. There is some evidence that Paramecia pre-sort food particles by discarding larger particles, but intake the particles matching their mouth cavity. Most prior attempts to mimic cilia-based manipulation merely mimicked the overall action rather than the beating of cilia. The majority of massive-parallel actuators are controlled by a central computer; however, a distributed control would be far more true-to-life. We propose and test a distributed parallel cilia platform where each actuating unit is autonomous, yet exchanging information with its closest neighbori

SUBMITTER: Whiting JGH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6352704 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature