Flow Sensing in Air and Water: Behavioral, Neural and Engineering Principles of Operation

558 Pages·2014·22.242 MB·English

by  Wolf Hanke (auth.), Horst Bleckmann, Joachim Mogdans, Sheryl L. Coombs (eds.)

Horst Bleckmann · Joachim Mogdans
Sheryl L. Coombs Editors
Flow Sensing
in Air and
Water
Behavioral, Neural and Engineering
Principles of Operation
Flow Sensing in Air and Water
Horst Bleckmann Joachim Mogdans
•
Sheryl L. Coombs
Editors
Flow Sensing in Air
and Water
Behavioral, Neural and Engineering
Principles of Operation
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Editors
Horst Bleckmann Sheryl L.Coombs
JoachimMogdans Department of Biological Sciences
InstituteforZoology Bowling Green StateUniversity
Universityof Bonn Bowling Green,OH
Bonn USA
Germany
ISBN 978-3-642-41445-9 ISBN 978-3-642-41446-6 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-41446-6
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Congress Participants
1.J.L.vanHemmen,2.H.Bleckmann,3.S.L.Coombs,4.J.Mogdans,5.J.Song,6.B.Fritzsch,
7. M. McHenry, 8. A. Dagamseh, 9. M. Gerson, 10. J. Casas, 11. J. Hellinger, 12. A. Steiner,
13.M.Yoshizawa,14.P.Pirih,15.S.vanNetten,16.A.M.Simmons,17.B.P.Chagnaud,18.J.F.Webb,
19.A.Chicoli,20.A.T.Klein,21.H.Herzog,22.T.Steinmann,23.H.Droogendijk,24.G.Sendin,
25.J.Engelmann,26.V.Hofmann,27.J.M.Gardiner,28.S.Windsor,29.F.Branoner,30.N.Wood,
31.T.Kohl,32.K.Yanase,33.A.Ghysen,34.T.BurtdePerera,35.J.C.Montgomery,36.G.Krijnen,
37.S.Wieskotten,38.C.Howard,39.S.Kranz,40.D.L.Macmillan,41.T.Bachmann,42.F.Oschmann,
43.J.Pujol-Martí,44.S.Sterbingd’Angelo,45.H.G.Krapp,46.Y.Krüger,47.A.Skorjanc,48.J.Liao,
49.P.Oteiza,50.J.Franken,51.B.Niesterok,52.G.Dehnhardt,53.T.Erlinghagen,54.W.Hanke,
55.M.C.Fiazza,56.J.B.Coleman,57.C.M.Harley,58.R.Zelick,59.M.Frings,60.S.Schwarze,
61.F.Clotten,62.S.Blazek,63.L.Chambers,64.F.Rizzi,65.A.Qualtieri,66.F.G.Barth,67.M.Bothe,
68.F.Kaldenbach,69.J.Winklnkemper,70.L.Miersch,71.O.Akanyeti,72.J.C.Brown,73.B.Honisch
Preface
Although special flow-sensing abilities are absent in humans, countless aquatic
(e.g., fish, cephalopods, crustaceans, some marine mammals), terrestrial (e.g.,
crickets, spiders and scorpions), and aerial (e.g., bats and perhaps birds) animals
have flow sensing abilities that underlie remarkable behavioral feats. These
include the ability to (1) identify and localize air or water borne prey signals, (2)
follow silent hydrodynamic trails many seconds after the trail blazer has left the
scene,(3)formhydrodynamicimagesoftheenvironmentintotaldarkness,and(4)
swim or fly efficiently and effortlessly in the face of destabilizing currents and
winds. In recognition of the increasing wealth of information on flow sensing
systems in diverse species and the recent surge of engineering interest in biomi-
metics, an international conference on Flow Sensing in Air and Water was con-
venedattheUniversityofBonn,GermanyinJuly2011.Leadingscientistsfromall
over the world and from different disciplines came together to share information
on these fascinating systems so that basic principles of operation might be iden-
tified and applied to engineering applications involving autonomous control of
underwater or aerial vehicles.
Asthepublishedproceedingsofthisunusualconference,thisvolumeservesas
avaluablereferenceforstudentsandresearchersalikeindiversedisciplines.Each
contributionprovidesauniqueblendofliteraturereviewandcurrentresearchfrom
experts in the fields of sensory biology, neuroethology, computational neurosci-
ence, and engineering. Thus, the entire volume provides a comprehensive survey
of flow sensing systems in a variety of different animals over a wide range of
topics, including the morphological and functional diversity of flow sensors,
spatialandtemporalcharacteristicsofairandwaterflowsencounteredbyanimals
in their natural environments, mechanosensory transduction mechanisms, pro-
cessing of flow stimuli by the peripheral and central nervous system, signal
analysis, neuronal modeling, and the engineered design of artificial flow sensors
and processing algorithms for guiding autonomous vehicles.
Our hope is that this book will serve not only as a reference volume for those
interested in flow sensing systems, but also as a source of bioinspiration for
engineers and others interested in how behavior is guided by flow.
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Acknowledgments
As conference organizers, we would like to thank the Deutsche Forschungsgeme-
inschaft, the Office ofNaval Research, the Company of Biologists, and finally, the
Leopoldinaforfundstosupporttheconference.Withoutfinancialsupportfromthese
agencies,ourconferencewouldhavebeenimpossibletoconvene.
In addition, we would like to thank the University of Bonn, which hosted the
conference.
As editors, we thank Mrs. Lindqvist for her excellent editorial assistance.
Finally, as scientists, we would like to extend our gratitude to the conference
participants and the authors of the book chapters, who made significant contri-
butions to our understanding offlow sensing systems.
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Contents
Part I Spatio-Temporal Structure of Natural Water
and Air Flow Stimuli
1 Natural Hydrodynamic Stimuli. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Wolf Hanke
2 Laser-Based Optical Methods for the Sensory Ecology
of Flow Sensing: From Classical PIV to Micro-PIV
and Beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Thomas Steinmann and Jérôme Casas
Part II Flow Sensing and Animal Behavior
3 The Role of Flow and the Lateral Line in the Multisensory
Guidance of Orienting Behaviors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Sheryl Coombs and John Montgomery
4 Hydrodynamic Imaging by Blind Mexican Cavefish. . . . . . . . . . . 103
Shane P. Windsor
5 Flow Sensing in Sharks: Lateral Line Contributions
to Navigation and Prey Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Jayne M. Gardiner and Jelle Atema
6 Hydrodynamic Perception in Seals and Sea Lions . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Guido Dehnhardt, Wolf Hanke, Sven Wieskotten,
Yvonne Krüger and Lars Miersch
7 The Slightest Whiff of Air: Airflow Sensing in Arthropods. . . . . . 169
Friedrich G. Barth
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8 Air Flow Sensing in Bats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Susanne J. Sterbing-D’Angelo and Cynthia F. Moss
9 Flies, Optic Flow and Multisensory Stabilization Reflexes . . . . . . 215
Holger G. Krapp
Part III Evolution and Development of Flow Sensors
10 Lateral Line Morphology and Development and Implications
for the Ontogeny of Flow Sensing in Fishes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Jacqueline F. Webb
11 Evolution of Polarized Hair Cells in Aquatic Vertebrates
and Their Connection to Directionally Sensitive Neurons. . . . . . . 271
Bernd Fritzsch and Hernán López-Schier
12 Patterning the Posterior Lateral Line in Teleosts:
Evolution of Development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Alain Ghysen, Hironori Wada and Christine Dambly-Chaudière
13 Functional Architecture of Lateral Line Afferent Neurons
in Larval Zebrafish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
James C. Liao
Part IV Biomechanics and Physiology of Flow Sensors
14 Techniques for Studying Neuromast Function in Zebrafish . . . . . 335
Primozˇ Pirih, Gaston C. Sendin and Sietse M. van Netten
15 Neuronal Basis of Source Localisation and the Processing
of Bulk Water Flow with the Fish Lateral Line. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Horst Bleckmann and Joachim Mogdans
Part V Modelling of Flow Sensing and Artificial Flow Sensors
16 Hydrodynamic Object Formation: Perception, Neuronal
Representation, and Multimodal Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
J. Leo van Hemmen
17 Crickets as Bio-Inspiration for MEMS-Based Flow-Sensing. . . . . 459
Gijs J. M. Krijnen, Harmen Droogendijk, Ahmad M. K. Dagamseh,
Ram K. Jaganatharaja and Jérôme Casas
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18 Complex Flow Detection by Fast Processing of Sensory
Hair Arrays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
Christoph Brücker and Ulrich Rist
19 Stress-Driven Artificial Hair Cell for Flow Sensing . . . . . . . . . . . 499
Francesco Rizzi, Antonio Qualtieri, Lily D. Chambers,
Gianmichele Epifani, William M. Megill and M. De Vittorio
20 Snookie: An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle with Artificial
Lateral-Line System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
Andreas N. Vollmayr, Stefan Sosnowski, Sebastian Urban,
Sandra Hirche and J. Leo van Hemmen