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Author:   Friedrich G. Barth ,  Joseph A.C. Humphrey ,  Timothy W. Secomb
Publisher:   Springer Verlag GmbH
Imprint:   Springer Verlag GmbH
Edition:   2003 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.927kg
ISBN:  

9783211837719

ISBN 10:   321183771
Pages:   404
Publication Date:   23 April 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introductory Remarks.- 1. Sensors and Sensing: A Biologist’s View.- 2. Sensors and Sensing: An Engineer’s View.- Mechanical Sensors.- A. Waves, Sound and Vibrations.- 3. How Nature Designs Ears.- 4. How to Build a Microphone.- 5. The Middle and External Ears of Terrestrial Vertebrates as Mechanical and Acoustic Transducers.- 6. The Outer Hair Cell: A Mechanoelectrical and Electromechanical Sensor/Actuator.- 7. The Silicon Cochlea.- 8. Biologically-Inspired Microfabricated Force and Position Mechano-Sensors.- B. Force and Motion.- 9. The Physics of Arthropod Medium-Flow Sensitive Hairs: Biological Models for Artificial Sensors.- 10. Cricket Wind Receptors: Thermal Noise for the Highest Sensitivity Known.- 11. Arthropod Cuticular Hairs: Tactile Sensors and the Refinement of Stimulus Transformation.- 12. The Fish Lateral Line: How to Detect Hydrodynamic Stimuli.- 13. The Blood Vasculature as an Adaptive System: Role of Mechanical Sensing.- 14. Mechanism of Shear Stress-Induced Coronary Microvascular Dilation.- 15. A Possible Mechanism for Sensing Crop Canopy Ventilation.- Visual Sensors and Vision.- 16. From Fly Vision to Robot Vision: Re-Construction as a Mode of Discovery.- 17. Locust’s Looming Detectors for Robot Sensors.- 18. Retina-Like Sensors Motivations, Technology and Applications.- 19. Computing in Cortical Columns: Information Processing in Visual Cortex.- 20. Vision by Graph Pyramids.- Chemosensors and Chemosensing.- 21. Mechanisms for Gradient Following.- 22. Representation of Odor Information in the Olfactory System: From Biology to an Artificial Nose.- 23. The External Aerodynamics of Canine Olfaction.- 24. Microcantilevers for Physical, Chemical, and Biological Sensing.- The Embedding of Sensors.- 25. Embedded Mechanical Sensors in Artificial andBiological.- Systems.- 26. Active Dressware: Wearable Kinesthetic Systems.

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... eine gelungene Darstellung des Gebietes der biophysikalischen Sensorik aus Sicht der Bionik... BIOspektrum 2/2004

""... eine gelungene Darstellung des Gebietes der biophysikalischen Sensorik aus Sicht der Bionik..."" BIOspektrum 2/2004

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