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A Virginia Tech team will create materials to mimic fish's unusual movement and sensing abilities.
Because of their neuro-musculo-skeletal structure, fish have remarkable maneuvering skills and the extraordinary ability to sense small changes in water flow, which enables them to locate and track prey, move in coordinated schools, obtain feedback control for locomotion, and understand their environment. Investigating the computational processing involved in these fish capabilities will enable researchers at Virginia Tech to develop advanced multifunctional materials for an intelligent system with distributed sensing and control strategies.
Credit: Michael Philen, Virginia Tech
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