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Article: Research from University of Antwerp broadens understanding of instrumentation research.
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- Electronics Newsweekly
- Article date:
- August 19, 2009
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According to recent research from Antwerp, Belgium, "This paper presents a computational study and preliminary experimental results of mechanosensor arrays for 2-D airflow sensing. In particular, the analysis presented here applies to a recently developed biomimetic microelectromechanical system (MEMS) inspired by the array of airflow-sensitive hairs found on the crickets' cercus."
"Based on the maximum-likelihood principle, an estimator that allows reconstruction of both the airflow direction and the airflow velocity amplitude is derived. Given this algorithm, different topologies of hair arrays are investigated in terms of sensitivity for measurement errors. In ...