DocumentCode
23859
Title
Tactile Bristle Sensors Made With Slime Mold
Author
Adamatzky, Andrew
Author_Institution
Unconventional Comput. Centre, Univ. of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Volume
14
Issue
2
fYear
2014
fDate
Feb. 2014
Firstpage
324
Lastpage
332
Abstract
Slime mold Physarum polycephalum is a large single cell visible by unaided eye. We design an experimental laboratory implementation of a slime mold based tactile bristles, where the slime mold responds to repeated deflection of bristle by an immediate high-amplitude spike and a prolonged increase in amplitude and width of its oscillation impulses. We demonstrate that signal strength of the Physarum tactile bristle sensor averages near six for an immediate response and two for a prolonged response.
Keywords
fibres; tactile sensors; Physarum polycephalum; high-amplitude spike; oscillation impulse; slime mold; tactile bristle sensor; Electric potential; Electrodes; Electron tubes; Hair; Oscillators; Plastics; Sensors; Slime mold; bioengineering; bionic; sensor;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Sensors Journal, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1530-437X
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/JSEN.2013.2283192
Filename
6607223
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