Abstract
Many arthropod filiform flow sensors contain hundreds of sensilla that respond to complex natural airflow stimuli. The combination of complex morphology and richness of natural stimuli present a significant challenge for modeling these sensory apparatuses. We survey advances in our understanding over the last five years of the interactions between filiform hairs immersed in airflow. We then discuss a general characterization of filiform hair response based on our work modeling the cricket cercal system, which utilizes a newly developed unsteady Stokes model to investigate the response of a group of hairs to temporally complex signals.
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Cummins, B., Gedeon, T. (2012). Assessing the mechanical response of groups of arthropod filiform flow sensors. In: Frontiers in Sensing. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-99749-9_16
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