Abstract:

Biological coupling elements are the main factors contributing to biological functions and the basic unit constructing biological coupling. Biological organisms can achieve a variety of biological functions efficiently by the combine of different coupling elements and coupling modes. Diversity of biological coupling elements and coupling mode exhibit inevitably diversity and complexity of biological coupling function. In this paper, the characteristics and types of biological coupling elements and the identification of the main and hypo-main coupling elements are analyzed, the coupling modes of biological coupling elements are revealed from the bionic viewpoint. Finally, the relations of the coupling elements, coupling modes and biological couplings are discussed.

Key words: engineering bionics, biological coupling, biological coupling element, coupling mode, coupling bionics