Bioinspired sonar reflectors as guiding beacons for autonomous navigation
- aDepartment of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
- bChair of Sensor Technology, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91052 Erlangen, Germany;
- cDepartment of Engineering Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Antwerp, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium;
- dCoSys-Lab, Faculty of Applied Engineering, University of Antwerp, B-2020 Antwerpen;
- eFlanders Make VZW, Non-Profit Strategic Research Institute, 3920 Lommel, Belgium
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- aDepartment of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
- bChair of Sensor Technology, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91052 Erlangen, Germany;
- cDepartment of Engineering Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Antwerp, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium;
- dCoSys-Lab, Faculty of Applied Engineering, University of Antwerp, B-2020 Antwerpen;
- eFlanders Make VZW, Non-Profit Strategic Research Institute, 3920 Lommel, Belgium
Edited by John A. Rogers, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, and approved December 6, 2019 (received for review June 8, 2019)
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- ↵1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: ralph.simon{at}vu.nl.
Author contributions: R.S., S.R., H.P., and J.S. designed research; R.S., M.B., H.W., and J.S. performed research; R.S., M.B., H.W., and J.S. contributed code/analytic tools; R.S., M.B., and H.W. analyzed data; and R.S., S.R., H.P., and J.S. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no competing interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
Data deposition: Data and code described in the paper are publicly available at https://github.com/GitRaSimon/BioSoR.
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