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The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a nocturnal lemur native to the island of Madagascar with a special thin middle finger. The aye-aye’s third digit (the slenderest one) has a remarkably specific adaptation, allowing it to perform tap-scanning (Finger tapping) to locate small cavities beneath tree bark and extract woodboring larvae from it. This finger, as an exceptional active acoustic actuator, makes an aye-aye’s biological system an attractive model for Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) methods and robotic systems. Despite the important aspects of the topic in engineering sensory and NDE, little is known about the mechanism and movement of this unique finger. In this paper a simplified kinematic model was proposed to simulate the aye-aye’s middle finger motion.
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