Gesa F Dinges, William P Zyhowski, Anastasia Lucci, Jordan Friend, Nicholas S Szczecinski
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Abstract
During walking, sensory information is measured and monitored by sensory organs that can be found on and within various limb segments. Strain can be monitored by insect load sensors, campaniform sensilla (CS), which have components embedded within the exoskeleton. CS vary in eccentricity, size, and orientation, which can affect their sensitivity to specific strains. Directly investigating the mechanical interfaces that these sensors utilize to encode changes in load bears various obstacles, such as modeling of viscoelastic properties. To circumvent the difficulties of modeling and performing biological experiments in small insects, we developed 3-dimensional printed resin models based on high-resolution imaging of CS. Through the utilization of strain gauges and a motorized tensile tester, physiologically plausible strain can be mimicked while investigating the compression and tension forces that CS experience; here, this was performed for a field of femoral CS inDrosophila melanogaster. Different loading scenarios differentially affected CS compression and the likely neuronal activity of these sensors and elucidate population coding of stresses acting on the cuticle.
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Bioinspiration & Biomimetics publishes research involving the study and distillation of principles and functions found in biological systems that have been developed through evolution, and application of this knowledge to produce novel and exciting basic technologies and new approaches to solving scientific problems. It provides a forum for interdisciplinary research which acts as a pipeline, facilitating the two-way flow of ideas and understanding between the extensive bodies of knowledge of the different disciplines. It has two principal aims: to draw on biology to enrich engineering and to draw from engineering to enrich biology.
The journal aims to include input from across all intersecting areas of both fields. In biology, this would include work in all fields from physiology to ecology, with either zoological or botanical focus. In engineering, this would include both design and practical application of biomimetic or bioinspired devices and systems. Typical areas of interest include:
Systems, designs and structure
Communication and navigation
Cooperative behaviour
Self-organizing biological systems
Self-healing and self-assembly
Aerial locomotion and aerospace applications of biomimetics
Biomorphic surface and subsurface systems
Marine dynamics: swimming and underwater dynamics
Applications of novel materials
Biomechanics; including movement, locomotion, fluidics
Cellular behaviour
Sensors and senses
Biomimetic or bioinformed approaches to geological exploration.