Frontiers in Sensing From Biology to Engineering /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Barth, Friedrich G. (Συγγραφέας), Humphrey, Joseph A. C. (Συγγραφέας), Srinivasan, Mandyam V. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Zoology.; Animal models in research.; Neurobiology.; Biomedical engineering.; Life Sciences.; Biomedical Engineering.; Animal Models.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.