Meet the editors

Maki K. Habib – Doctor of Engineering Science in Intelligent and Autonomous Robots, University of Tsukuba, Japan. He is a Full Professor of Robotics and Mechatronics at the Mechanical Engineering Department, School of Sciences and Engineering, The American University in Cairo, Egypt. His main areas of research interest are focused on: Autonomous Vehicles: Control and Navigation, Human adaptive and friendly Mechatronics,

Service robots and Humanitarian demining, Autonomous Arial Vehicles and Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, Telecooperation, Distributed teleoperation, and Collaborative control, Flexible automation, Wireless sensor networks and Ambient intelligence, Biomimetic and biomedical robots, industry 4.0: IoTs, CPSs, and WSNs, Intelligent control.

César Martín Gómez (Ph.D. Architect) has been responsible for building services and energy systems in complex buildings in Spain since 2000. He has worked in I&S Ingenieros, in the Architecture Department in the Spanish Renewable Energies Center (CENER), and as Building Services and Energy Coordinator in Mangado & Asociados. Nowadays he works as a researcher and professor in the Department of Construction, Building Services

and Structures at the University of Navarra (Spain).

Contents

Bio-Inspired Hydrogels via 3D Bioprinting

Hardware Neuron Models

*by Manfred Hartbauer*

*by Khadeer Ahmed*

*by Mohamed Yehia Zakaria*

in Food Drying Industry

against Food Pathogens

Technology *by Kirti Rani*

*by Parveen Kaur Sidhu and Kiran Nehra*

*by Maki K. Habib and Hashem Rizk*

Brain-Inspired Spiking Neural Networks

Unsteady Aerodynamics of Highly Maneuvering Flyers

*by Lei Nie, Can Wang, Yaling Deng and Amin Shavandi*

Active Gaits Generation of Quadruped Robot Using Pulse-Type

*by Yuki Takei, Katsuyuki Morishita, Riku Tazawa and Ken Saito*

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 21**

**Chapter 3 35**

**Chapter 4 49**

**Chapter 5 75**

**Chapter 6 101**

**Chapter 7 125**

**Chapter 8 141**

**Chapter 9 163**

From Insect Vision to a Novel Bio-Inspired Algorithm for Image Denoising

Pre-Harvest and Post-Harvest Techniques for Plant Disease Detections

An Introduction of Biomimetic System and Heat Pump Technology

Bacteriocins of Lactic Acid Bacteria as Potent Antimicrobial Peptides

Clinical Approaches of Biomimetic: An Emerging Next Generation

*by Khurram Yousaf, Kunjie Chen and Muhammad Azam Khan*
