Frontiers in Sensing: From Biology to Engineering (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

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.