Biomimicry in Microwave Photonics and Soft Robotic with Fiber Optics Sensors

Biomimicry offers effective solutions to critical challenges in our society by learning and mimicking the strategies used by living organisms. In this paper, biomimicry in microwave photonics and soft robotics will be introduced. Bio-inspired approaches has been used to provide promising solutions to the field of microwave photonic such as localization, jamming avoidance, and steganography. The analog solution provided by bio-inspired approaches does not propose a bandwidth limitation because there is no need for digitization. In recent years, soft robotics has been a promising alternative to conventional robots by offering safer robot-to-human interaction. Unique embedding configurations allow fiber optic sensor to be used in soft robotic to provide feedback for precise control. The second part of this paper will introduce several bio-inspired soft robots with embedded fiber optic sensors. Fiber optics provide flexible and light weight sensing solution, making it a promising candidate for sensing in soft robotics.