Sound Modulation in Singing Katydids Using Ionic Polymer-Metal Composites (IPMCs) |
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作者姓名: | Yan Zhou Cheng-Wei Chiu Carlos J. Sanchez Jorge M. Gonzalez Benjamin Epstein David Rhodes S. Bradleigh Vinson Hong Liang |
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作者单位: | [1]Materials, Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA [2]Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas' A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA [3]Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX77843, USA [4]Department of Plant Science, California State University, Fresno, CA 93740, USA [5]OpCoast LLC, Brick, NJ08723, USA |
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基金项目: | This work is supported by the US Army Advanced Research Office and the US Army Chemical Biological Center, Edgewood, M D, contract #W911 NF-09-C-0069. The content of the information does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the Government, and no official endorsement should be inferred. |
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摘 要: | Many insect families have evolved to produce and detect complex singing patterns for the purposes of mating, display of dominance, predator escape, and other needs. While the mechanisms of sound production by insects have been thoroughly studied, man-machine exploitation of such mechanisms has remained unreported. We therefore describe a method to modulate the frequency spectrum in the chirp call of a singing insect, Gampsocleis gratiosa (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), a large katydid indigenous to China and commonly known as Guo Guo or Chinese Bush Cricket. The chirp modulation was achieved through the contact of a ribbon of lonic Polymer-Metal Composite (IPMC) against wing of the insect. The IPMC effectively served as an actuator when a small DC voltage was applied to the ribbon's faces. By applying a sequential on/off voltage waveform to the IPMC ribbon, the katydid's chirp was modulated in a corresponding manner. This configuration can be used as part of a broader application of using singing insects to harness their acoustic power to produce and propagate machine-induced messages into the acoustic environment.
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关 键 词: | 金属复合材料 离子聚合物 螽斯科 调制 线性调频脉冲 声音 IPMC 执行机构 |
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