Research Outline

Wild plants acquire the wisdom to grow taller to obtain light while they adapt to the habitat environment each independently. As a result, the morphology of plants is extremely diverse. However, it is experientially known that scaling law between height and diameter which widely consists regardless of the species exists. It is conceivable that the scaling law is caused by “gravity” which is common action for plants, and this suggests that plants have the mechanism which cleverly resists gravity. My goal is not only to incorporate the resource-saving and high-performance wisdom of plants into the engineering field, but also to reveal the essence of the wisdom that plants have stored in the process of evolution by interpreting the origin and background of plants based on mechanics.