Sensors and sensing in biology and engineering /
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| Imprint: | Wien ; New York : Springer, c2003. |
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| Description: | xii, 399 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5360800 |
Table of Contents:
- Introductory Remarks
- Sensors and sensing: a biologist's view
- Sensors and sensing: an engineer's view
- Mechanical Sensors
- Waves, Sound and VibrationsHow nature designs ears
- How to build a microphone
- The middle and external ears of terrestrial vertebrates as mechanical and acoustic transducers
- The outer hair cell: a mechanoelectrical and electromechanical sensor/actuator
- The silicon cochlea
- Biologically-inspired microfabricated force and position mechano-sensors
- Force and Motion The physics of arthropod medium-flow sensitive hairs
- Biological models for artificial sensors
- Cricket wind receptors: thermal noise for the highest sensitivity known
- Arthropod cuticular hairs: tactile sensors and the refinement of stimulus transformation
- The fish lateral line: how to detect hydrodynamic stimuli
- The blood vasculature as an adaptive system: role of mechanical sensing
- Mechanism of shear stress-induced coronary microvascular dilation L. Kuo Kuo, L.
- A possible mechanism for sensing crop canopy ventilation
- Visual Sensors And Vision
- From fly vision to robot vision: re-construction as a mode of discovery
- Locust[$$$]'s looming detectors for robot sensors
- Retina-like sensors: motivations, technology and applications
- Computing in cortical columns: information processing in visual cortex
- Vision by graph pyramids
- Chemosensors And Chemosensing
- Mechanisms for gradient following
- Representation of odor information in the olfactory system
- From biology to an artificial nose
- The external aerodynamics of canine olfaction
- Microcantilevers for physical, chemical, and biological sensing
- The Embedding Of Sensors
- Embedded mechanical sensors in artificial and biological systems
- Active dressware: wearable kinesthetic systems
