Learning from animal sensors: The clever "design" of spider mechanoreceptors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8339, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Barth, Friedrich G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Embedded sensor; Hair sensilla; Mechano reception; Medium flow sensor; Slit sensilla; Spider; Strain sensor; Tactile sensor

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODS; EMBEDDED SENSORS; FLOW-SENSORS; HAIR SENSILLA; MECHANO-RECEPTION; SLIT SENSILLA; SPIDER; STRAIN SENSORS; TACTILE SENSORS;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMIMETICS;

SENSORS;

EID: 84860720260     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.902456     Document Type: Conference Paper

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