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" Sensors and sensing in biology and engineering. "
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BL
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727320
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b547052
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Sensors and sensing in biology and engineering.
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[Place of publication not identified]: Springer, 2013
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3709160251
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: 9783709160251
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INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Sensors and sensing: a biologist's view (F. G. Barth), Sensors and sensing: an engineer's view (H. Meixner) MECHANICAL SENSORS Waves, Sound and Vibrations How nature designs ears (A. Michelsen), How to build a microphone (P. Rasmussen), The middle and external ears of terrestrial vertebrates as mechanical and acoustic transducers (J. J Rosowski), The outer hair cell: a mechanoelectrical and electromechanical sensor/actuator (K.V. Snyder, F. Sachs, W. E. Brownell), The silicon cochlea (R. Sarpeshkar), Biologically-inspired microfabricated force and position mechano-sensors (P. Dario et al.) Force and Motion The physics of arthropod medium-flow sensitive hairs: biological models for artificial sensors (J. A. C. Humphrey, F. G. Barth, M. Reed, A. Spak), Cricket wind receptors: thermal noise for the highest sensitivity known (T. Shimozawa, J. Murakami, T. Kumagai), Arthropod cuticular hairs: tactile sensors and the refinement of stimulus transformation (F. G. Barth, H.-E. Dechant), The fish lateral line: how to detect hydrodynamic stimuli (J. Mogdans, J. Engelmann, W. Hanke, S. Kroether), The blood vasculature as an adaptive system: role of mechanical sensing (T. W. Secomb, A. R. Pries), Mechanism of shear stress-induced coronary microvascular dilation (L. Kuo, T. W. Hein), A possible mechanism for sensing crop canopy ventilation (T. Farquhar, J. Zhou, H. W. Haslach Jr.) VISUAL SENSORS AND VISION From fly vision to robot vision: re-construction as a mode of discovery (N. Franceschini), Locust's looming detectors for robot sensors (F. C. Rind, R. D. Santer, J. M. Blanchard, P. F. M. J. Verschure), Retina-like sensors: motivations, technology and applications (G. Sandini, G. Metta), Computing in cortical columns: information processing in visual cortex (S. W. Zucker), Vision by graph pyramids (W.G. Kropatsch) CHEMOSENSORS AND CHEMOSENSING Mechanisms for gradient following (D.B. Dusenbery), Representation of odor information in theolfactory system: from biology to an artificial nose (J. S. Kauer, J. White), The external aerodynamics of canine olfaction (G. S. Settles, D.A. Kester, L.J. Dodson-Dreibelbis), Microcantilevers for physical, chemical, and biological sensing (T. Thundat, A. Majumdar) THE EMBEDDING OF SENSORS Embedded mechanical sensors in artificial and biological systems (P. Calvert), Active dressware: wearable kinesthetic systems (D. de Rossi, F. Lorussi, A. Mazzoldi, P. Orsini, E. P. Scilingo)
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R857.B54S467 2013
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