简介:Onthebasisofthequantizationofmesoscopicbiologicalcellequivalentcircuit,westudiedthequantumfluctuationsofvoltageandcurrentofmesoscopicbiologicalcellequivalentcircuitasfinitetemperaturebyBogoliuovtransformation.Theresultshowsthatthequantumfluctuationsofvoltageandcurrentnotonlyrelatewiththeparametersofequivalentcircuit,temperature,butalsodecaywithtime.Thisresultmayhavesignificantvalueonthedesignandapplicationofthebio-electronicapparatus.
简介:Thecapabilityandreliabilityarecrucialcharacteristicsofmobilerobotswhilenavigatingincomplexenvironments.Theserobotsareexpectedtoperformmanyusefultaskswhichcanimprovethequalityoflifegreatly.Robotlocalizationanddecisionmakingarethemostimportantcognitiveprocessesduringnavigation.However,mostofthesealgorithmsarenotefficientandarechallengingtaskswhilerobotsnavigatethroughcomplexenvironments.Inthispaper,weproposeabiologicallyinspiredmethodforrobotdecision-making,basedonrat’sbrainsignals.Rodentsaccuratelyandrapidlynavigateincomplexspacesbylocalizingthemselvesinreferencetothesurroundingenvironmentallandmarks.Firstly,weanalyzedtherats’strategieswhilenavigatinginthecomplexY-maze,recordedlocalfieldpotentials(LFPs),simultaneously.TherecordedLFPswereprocessedanddifferentfeatureswereextractedwhichwereusedastheinputintheartificialneuralnetwork(ANN)topredicttherat’sdecision-makingineachjunction.TheANNperformancewastestedinarealrobotandgoodperformanceisachieved.Theimplementationofourmethodonarealrobot,demonstratesitsabilitiestoimitatetherat’sdecision-makingandintegratetheinternalstateswithexternalsensors,inordertoperformreliablenavigationincomplexmaze.
简介:AnewcompactopticalFanofiltersuitableforbiologicalsensingisproposed,whichpatternsphotoncrystalinsinglecrystallinesiliconnanomembranes(SiNMs)andtransferringontotransparentglasssubstrates.Theeffectsofairholesizeandsiliconthicknessonthetransmissioncharacteristicsofnewfilterarenumericallyinvestigatedbyusingthree-dimensionalfinite-differencetime-domain(FDTD)technique,thespectralresponseisalsostudiedbyback-fillingbioliquid.Theresultsshowthatthedipwavelengthwillshifttowardlongerwavelengthbyeitherreducingairholeradiusorfillingbio-liquid.Thenumberofdipswillincreasewiththeincreaseofsiliconthickness.Thesizeofproposedfiltercanbelessthan1mm2.