A Portable, Bio-inspired Platform for Photo-Responsive Sensing and Display
The platform is designed to enable NC State University researchers to rapidly prototype and
develop new color-based bio-inspired applications and architectures.
This project will create a mobile, biologically-inspired platform that can sense and adjust its own color in response to the environment. Using camera-based input signals, the platform can form hue-matched patterns with a response time of less than 10 seconds across a multi-pixel display. This will allow NC State researchers to quickly prototype and develop new applications and color-based structures.
Sponsor
Northeastern University
The grant—running from February 1, 2022 to January 31, 2025—is for a total of $330,000.
Principle Investigators
Michael Daniele
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The team will leverage the design principles elucidated from their single, manually constructed ECDs to now
design, build, and test a portable, bio-inspired platform that can simultaneously sense and measure color from
the environment, then activate spatially patterned coloration with <10sec response times. The fully integrated
system will use camera-based input signals that trigger the formation of hue matched patterns across a multi-
pixelated display.