Insect inertial measurement units: Gyroscopic sensing of body rotation

Frontiers in Sensing: From Biology to Engineering

Volumn 9783211997499, Issue , 2012, Pages 287-297

  Daniel, Thomas ^a   Aldworth, Zane ^b   Hinterwirth, Armin ^b   Fox, Jessica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

'CURRENT; BEHAVIORAL DATA; COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; CONTROL MECHANISM; ENGINEERING SYSTEMS; FLIGHT CONTROL; INERTIAL MEASUREMENTS UNITS; MECHANOSENSORY SYSTEM; SHORT RESPONSE TIME; VISUAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84901435812     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-211-99749-9_19     Document Type: Chapter

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