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Bioinspired sonar reflectors as guiding beacons for autonomous navigation

View ORCID ProfileRalph Simon, Stefan Rupitsch, Markus Baumann, Huan Wu, Herbert Peremans, and Jan Steckel
  1. aDepartment of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
  2. bChair of Sensor Technology, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91052 Erlangen, Germany;
  3. cDepartment of Engineering Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Antwerp, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium;
  4. dCoSys-Lab, Faculty of Applied Engineering, University of Antwerp, B-2020 Antwerpen;
  5. eFlanders Make VZW, Non-Profit Strategic Research Institute, 3920 Lommel, Belgium

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PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1367-1374; first published January 6, 2020; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1909890117
Ralph Simon
aDepartment of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
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Markus Baumann
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Huan Wu
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Herbert Peremans
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Jan Steckel
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  1. Edited by John A. Rogers, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, and approved December 6, 2019 (received for review June 8, 2019)

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vol. 117 no. 3 1367-1374
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1909890117
PubMed: 
31907314

Published By: 
National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Published in issue January 21, 2020.
  • Published first January 6, 2020.

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  1. Ralph Simona,1,
  2. Stefan Rupitschb,
  3. Markus Baumannb,
  4. Huan Wub,
  5. Herbert Peremansc, and
  6. Jan Steckeld,e
  1. aDepartment of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
  2. bChair of Sensor Technology, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91052 Erlangen, Germany;
  3. cDepartment of Engineering Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Antwerp, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium;
  4. dCoSys-Lab, Faculty of Applied Engineering, University of Antwerp, B-2020 Antwerpen;
  5. eFlanders Make VZW, Non-Profit Strategic Research Institute, 3920 Lommel, Belgium
  1. 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.

  • This article contains supporting information online at https://www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1909890117/-/DCSupplemental.

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