Miniature curved artificial compound eyes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 9267-9272

  Floreano, Dario ^a   Pericet Camara, Ramon ^a   Viollet, Stéphane ^b   Ruffier, Franck ^b   Brückner, Andreas ^c   Leitel, Robert ^c   Buss, Wolfgang ^c   Menouni, Mohsine ^d   Expert, Fabien ^b   Juston, Raphaël ^b   Dobrzynski, Michal Karol ^a   L'Eplattenier, Geraud ^a   Recktenwald, Fabian ^e   Mallot, Hanspeter A ^e   Franceschini, Nicolas ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bioinspired robotics; Micro opto electromechanical systems; Optic flow sensor; Wide angle vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIOMIMETICS; EYE; ILLUMINATION; MICRO CONTACT LENS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

BIOINSPIRED ROBOTICS; MICRO-OPTO-ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; OPTIC FLOW SENSOR; WIDE-ANGLE VISION;

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETICS; COMPOUND EYE, ARTHROPOD; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MOTION PERCEPTION; ROBOTICS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84878690872     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1219068110     Document Type: Article

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