A Study of the Servo and Regulatory Properties of a Crayfish Neuro-muscular System |
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accessory nerve According to Milhorn adapting stretch receptor ALPHA MOTOR NEURON amplitude analysis axon bias biological system Bode plot closed-loop crayfish abdomen dendrites describing function determine dorsal nerve effect EFFERENT NERVE engineering feedback control excitatory experiments feedback control system fibers flexion gain and phase half segment Houk impulses inhibitory input-output relationships interaction junctional potentials Kennedy & Takeda Kuffler Laplace transform LIBRARIES STANFORD UNIVERS LIBRARIES STANFORD UNIVERSITY linear systems loop gain mechanical Milhorn M-5 minification moto motoneurones innervating RM motor nerve MRO afferent discharge MRO discharge MRO's muscle receptor organ nonlinear open-loop gain oscillation peak change phase shift posterior produced ratio regulatory RM₁ schematic segment length servomechanism SIMPLE ENGINEERING FEEDBACK simple engineering system slowly adapting stretch spindle STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES stimulation stretch receptor mixing superficial extensor muscles SYSTEM DIAGRAM system gain system proprioceptive loop Taken from Milhorn tension tion tonic transfer function UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES STANFORD variable variation viscosity