Walking of spider on water surface studied from its leg shadows

Different from sculling forward of water striders with their hairy water-repellent legs, water spiders walked very quickly on water surfaces. By using a shadow method, the walking of water spiders had been studied. The three-dimensional trajectories and the supporting forces of water spider legs during walking forward were achieved. Results showed that the leg movement could be divided into three phases: slap, stroke, and retrieve. Employing an effective strategy to improving walking efficiency, the sculling legs supported most of its body weight while other legs were lifted to reduce the lateral water resistance, which was similar to the strategy of water striders. These findings could help guiding the design of water walking robots with high efficiency.     

基于三角波驱动法珀可调谐滤波器的光纤光栅解调偏差校正算法

为了校正解调系统在三角波上升行程和下降行程对光纤布拉格光栅(FBG)波长解调结果出现的偏差,提出一种采样点相对位置的校正算法。将三角波2个扫描行程的FBG波峰分别映射到相应的标准具原始数据中,再对2个映射波峰在标准具光谱中的相对位置偏差进行校正,达到减小解调偏差的目的。实验采用2支不同波长的FBG进行验证,结果显示,经过校正,FBG1将三角波上下扫描行程的解调偏差从12.053 pm减小到了0.476 pm,FBG2将该解调偏差从12.101 pm减小到了0.427 pm,2支传感器的解调偏差相比校正前分别减小了25.3倍和28.3倍。