Tactile efficiency of insect antennae with two hinge joints

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 168-181

  Krause, Andre F ^a   Dürr, Volker ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE SHIFT; RANDOM PROCESSES; SAMPLING; SENSORS;

COULOMB FRICTION; INSECT ANTENNAE; MORPHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; TECTILE SENSING;

VISION;

ARTHROPODA; CARAUSIUS MOROSUS; INSECTA; ORTHOPTERA; PHASMATODEA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; INNERVATION; INSECT; JOINT; MECHANORECEPTOR; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; TOUCH;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; FOURIER ANALYSIS; INSECTS; JOINTS; MECHANORECEPTORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; ORIENTATION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TOUCH;

EID: 16644398467     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-004-0490-6     Document Type: Article

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