Frontiers in Sensing From Biology to Engineering /

Biological sensory systems, fine-tuned to their specific tasks with remarkable perfection, have an enormous potential for technical, industrial, and medical applications. This applies to sensors specialized for a wide range of energy forms such as optical, mechanical, electrical, and magnetic, to na...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Barth, Friedrich G. (Editor ), Humphrey, Joseph A. C. (Editor ), Srinivasan, Mandyam V. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
Edición:1st ed. 2012.
Temas:
Neurosciences.
Biomedical engineering.
Zoology.
Biology-Technique.
Neuroscience.
Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering.
Experimental Organisms.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • I. General: 1. From biology to engineering: insect vision and applications to robotics.- 2. Nature as model for technical sensors
  • II. Vision. A. Seeing: 3. Color sensing of butterflies
  • 4. Insect tangential cell analogues and implications for efficient visuomotor control
  • 5. Biologically inspired enhancement of dim light video
  • 6. Event-based silicon retinas and cochleas
  • B. Visual control: 7. The mode-sensing hypothesis: matching sensors, actuators and flight dynamics
  • 8. Adaptive encoding of motion information in the fly visual system
  • 9 Visual motion sensing and flight path control in flies
  • III. Olfaction: 10. Cuticular hydrocarbon sensillum for nestmate recognition in ants
  • 11. Fluid mechanical problems in crustacean active chemoreception
  • 12. Stagnation point flow analysis of odorant detection by permeable moth antennae
  • IV. Mechanoreception. A. Hearing: 13. Man made versus biological in-air sonar systems
  • B. Touch: 14. Active sensing: head and vibrissal velocity during exploratory behaviors of the rat
  • 15. Touch mechanoreceptors: modeling and simulating the skin and receptors to predict the timing of action potentials
  • C. Medium motion: 16. Assessing the mechanical response of groups of arthropod filiform flow sensors
  • D. Strain and substrate motion: 17. Spider strain detection
  • 18. The golden mole middle ear: a sensor for airborne and substrate-borne vibrations
  • 19. Insect inertial measurement units: gyroscopic sensing of body rotation
  • V.  Infrared and electro-reception: 20. Designing a fluidic infrared detector based on the photomechanic infrared sensilla in pyrophilous beetles
  • 21. Remote electrical sensing: detection and analysis of objects by weakly electric fishes
  • 22. Microsecond and millisecond time processing in weakly electric fishes
  • VI.  Bioinspired sensors, sensor materials and fabrication: 23. Synthetic materials for bio-inspired flow-responsive structures. 24. Polyelectrolyte hydrogels as electromechanical transducers
  • 25. Single-molecule detection of proteins using nanopores
  • 26. A numerical approach to surface plasmon resonance sensor design with high sensitivity using single and bimetallic film structures
  • 27. Deflection-based flow field sensors - examples and requirements
  • 28. Design and fabrication process for artificial lateral line sensors
  • Index
  • List of contributors.- About the editors.

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