BIOMIMETIC FLOW IMAGING WITH AN ARTIFICIAL FISH LATERAL LINE

Nam Nguyen, Douglas Jones, Saunvit Pandya, Yingchen Yang, Nannan Chen, Craig Tucker, Chang Liu

2008

Abstract

Almost all fish possess a flow-sensing system along their body, called the lateral line, that allows them to perform various behaviours such as schooling, preying, and obstacle or predator avoidance. Inspired from this, our group has built artificial lateral lines from newly-developed flow sensors using Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology. To make our lateral line a functional sensory system, we develop an adaptive beamforming algorithm (applying Capon’s method) that provides our lateral line with the capability of imaging the locations of oscillating dipoles in a 3D underwater environment. To help our sensor arrays adapt to the environment for better performance, we introduce a self-calibration algorithm that significantly improves the image accuracy. Finally, we derive the Cramer-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) that represents the fundamental perfomance limit of our system and provides guidance in optimizing artificial lateral-line systems.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Nguyen N., Jones D., Pandya S., Yang Y., Chen N., Tucker C. and Liu C. (2008). BIOMIMETIC FLOW IMAGING WITH AN ARTIFICIAL FISH LATERAL LINE . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 2: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-18-0, pages 269-276. DOI: 10.5220/0001063002690276

in Bibtex Style

@conference{biosignals08,
author={Nam Nguyen and Douglas Jones and Saunvit Pandya and Yingchen Yang and Nannan Chen and Craig Tucker and Chang Liu},
title={BIOMIMETIC FLOW IMAGING WITH AN ARTIFICIAL FISH LATERAL LINE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 2: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={269-276},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001063002690276},
isbn={978-989-8111-18-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 2: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2008)
TI - BIOMIMETIC FLOW IMAGING WITH AN ARTIFICIAL FISH LATERAL LINE
SN - 978-989-8111-18-0
AU - Nguyen N.
AU - Jones D.
AU - Pandya S.
AU - Yang Y.
AU - Chen N.
AU - Tucker C.
AU - Liu C.
PY - 2008
SP - 269
EP - 276
DO - 10.5220/0001063002690276