Electrolocation vs Electroreception - What's the difference?
electrolocation | electroreception |
(zoology) the ability of an animal to detect an object by its distortion of the animal's electric field, as in the electric fishes such as the electric eel.
(cybernetics) the ability of a robot to locate an object by detecting changes in its electric field..
The biological ability to perceive electrical impulses, used for electrolocation and electrocommunication and particularly common among aquatic creatures (since salt water is a more efficient conductor than air).
As nouns the difference between electrolocation and electroreception
is that electrolocation is (zoology) the ability of an animal to detect an object by its distortion of the animal's electric field, as in the electric fishes such as the electric eel while electroreception is the biological ability to perceive electrical impulses, used for electrolocation and electrocommunication and particularly common among aquatic creatures (since salt water is a more efficient conductor than air).electrolocation
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*Allaby, Michael. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Zoology. pg 159. Oxford University Press. New York. 1992. *Solberg, J.R. Lynch, K.M. Maclver, M.A. Dept. of Mech. Eng., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL. 'Robotic Electrolocation: Active Underwater Target Localization with Electric Fields" in Robotics and Automation, 2007 IEEE International Conference . April 10 - 14, 2007. ISSN: 1050-4729. ISBN: 1-4244-0601-3. INSPEC Accession Number: 9506298. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.364231. IEEE Xplore. Online. June 8, 2008.