GRK 1572: Bionics - Interactions across Boundaries to the Environment

仿生学作为一门科学学科涉及生物系统的设计和程序的技术转换和应用。这个研究训练小组关注仿生学的一个非常有前途的分支：跨越边界与环境的相互作用。在生物系统中，内部世界和物理环境之间的边界是由结构和功能上不同的专门接口实现的。基于结构功能（保护，反射，力学，粘附）和基于传感器的功能（视觉，红外检测，电子定位，流量检测，信息处理）的生物模型，将构思和开发创新的技术系统。核心问题是培养一批博士生作为仿生学研究生在跨学科的时尚，以克服研究的主流大学课程的功能和概念专业化的缺点。特别是，博士生将通过生物技术的转换和应用，模拟和测试与结构功能和基于传感器的边界功能有关的有形技术问题的解决方案。教师和博士生团队将建立一座科学桥梁，生物学和应用技术各有一个桥头。为此，波恩大学，RWTH亚琛和Forschungszentrum Jülich的技术和生物学专业研究小组将与来自行业的合作伙伴共同学习，以确定针对特定技术挑战的生物学定向解决方案模型，并从中开发新的技术解决方案。仿生学毕业生将定期活跃在桥的两边，产生国际公认的研究成果，从而使自己有资格在未来的研究和工业工作。因此，需要生物学家和技术人员之间的跨学科团队合作，以及在广泛的方法和主题范围内对跨边界相互作用的共同研究主题进行论文项目的安排。新的研究生方案将为波恩新的研究重点奠定基础。

Bionics as a scientific discipline deals with the technological conversion and application of designs and procedures of biological systems. This Research Training Group concerns a highly promising branch of bionics: interactions across boundaries to the environment. In biological systems, the boundary between the inner world and the physical environment is implemented by structurally and functionally diverse specialised interfaces. Based on biological models for structural functions (protection, reflection, mechanics, adhesion) and sensor-based functions (vision, infrared detection, electric location, flow detection, information processing), innovative technical systems will be conceived and developed. The central concern is to train a group of doctoral students as bionics graduates in a trans-disciplinary fashion in order to overcome the disadvantages of the functional and conceptual specialisation of mainstream university courses of study. In particular, the doctoral students will simulate and test solutions for tangible technical problems with respect to structural functions and sensor-based boundary functions by means of conversion and application of biological know-how. The team of teachers and doctoral students will found a bridge of science, with one bridge head each in biology and in applied technology. For this purpose, specialised research groups in technology and biology at the University of Bonn, the RWTH Aachen and the Forschungszentrum Jülich will jointly learn with partners from industry to identify directed solution models from biology for specific technological challenges and to develop from it novel technological solutions. It is intended that the bionics graduates will be regularly active on both sides of the bridge, produce internationally acknowledged research results, and thus qualify themselves for future jobs in research and industry. Accordingly, both a trans-disciplinary team work among biologists and technologists and an arrangement of the dissertation projects in a wide methodical and topical range about the common research theme of interactions across boundaries are required. The new post-graduate programme will establish the core for a new research focus in Bonn.