Publications
Journal Articles
Cruse, H., and Wehner, R. (2011). No need for a cognitive map: decentralized memory for insect navigation. PLoS Comp. Biol. 7 (3):e1002009.
Dirks, J.-H., and Dürr, V. (2011). Biomechanics of the stick insect antenna: Damping properties and structural correlates of the cuticle. J.Mech.Behav.Biomed.Mat., DOI:10.1016/j.jmbbm.2011.07.002
Zill, S.N., Büschges, A., and Schmitz, J. (2011). Encoding of force increases and decreases by tibial campaniform sensilla in the stick insect, Carausius morosus. J. comp. Physiol. 197: 851-867, DOI 10.1007/s00359-011-0647-4.
Schütz, C., and Dürr, V. (2011). Active tactile exploration for adaptive locomotion in the stick insect. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. Ser. B., DOI:10.1098/rstb.2011.0126
Szufnarowski, F., and Schneider, A. (2011). Force control of a piezoelectric actuator based on a statistical system model and dynamic compensation. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 46, 1507 - 1521.
Annunziata, S., Paskarbeit, J., and Schneider, A. (2011) Novel bioinspired control approaches to increase the stiffness variability in multi-muscle driven joints. Bioinspiration and Biomimetics 6, DOI:10.1088/1748-3182/6/4/045003
Patanè, L., Hellbach, S., Krause, A.F., Arena, P., & Dürr, V. (2012).An insect-inspired bionic sensor for tactile localization and material classification with state-dependent modulation.Frontiers in Neurorobotics 6, 1–18.
Schilling, M., & Cruse, H. (2012). What's next: Recruitment of a grounded predictive body model for planning a robot's actions.
Frontiers in Psychology 3(383).
Zill, S., Schmitz, J., Chaudhry, S., & Büschges, A. (2012). Force encoding in stick insect legs delineates a reference frame for motor control. Journal of Neurophysiology 108, 1453–1472.
Krause, A.F., & Dürr, V. (2012). Active tactile sampling by an insect in a step-climbing paradigm. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.
Annunziata, S. & Schneider, A. (2012). Physiologically based control laws featuring antagonistic muscle co-activation for stable compliant joint drives. Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, 9, 249-266.
Szufnarowski, F. & Schneider, A. (2012). Two-dimensional dynamics of a quasi-static legged piezoelectric actuator. Smart Materials and Structures, 21, 055007.
Kuntz, S., Poeck, B., Sokolowski, M.B., Strauss, R. (2012). The visual orientation memory of Drosophila requires Foraging (PKG) upstream of Ignorant (RSK2) in ring neurons of the central complex. Learn. Mem. 19, 337-340.
Arena, P., Patanè, L., Termini, P.S. (2012) Learning expectation in insects: a recurrent spiking neural model for spatio-temporal representation. Neural Networks 32 (2012) 35–45.
Drimus, A., Kootstra, G., Bilberg, A., & Kragic, D. (2012). Design of a flexible tactile sensor for classification of rigid and deformable objects. Robotics and Autonomous Systems , doi: 10.1016/j.robot.2012.07.021
Krause, A.F., Winkler, A., & Dürr, V. (2013). Central drive and proprioceptive control of antennal movements in the walking stick insect.Journal of Physiology Paris. 107 (1-2):116-129
Arena, P.; Patanè, L., Stornanti, V.; Termini, P.S.; Zaepf, B., Strauss,R. (2013) Modeling the insect mushroom bodies: Application to a delayed match-to-sample task. Neural Networks 41,202-211. doi: 10.1016/j.neunet.2012.11.013
Paskarbeit, J., Annunziata, S., Basa, D. & Schneider, A. (accepted). A self-contained, elastic joint drive for robotics applications based on a sensorised elastomer coupling – design and identification. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical
Thran, J., Poeck, B., Strauss, R. (pending revision) Analysis of the ellipsoid-body open mutant reveals a role of Drosophila SRF in a visual working memory. Current Biology, pending revision.
Schilling M., Hoinville, T., Schmitz, J., & Cruse, H. (2013). Walknet, a bio-inspired controller for hexapod walking. Biological Cybernetics 107:397-419 DOI 10.1007/s00422-013-0563-5
Cruse, H., Schilling, M. (2013) How and to what end may consciousness contribute to action? Attributing properties of consciousness to an embodied, minimally cognitive artificial neural network.Frontiers in Psychology, 4(324). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00324
Schilling M, Paskarbeit J, Hüffmeier A, Schneider A, Schmitz J, Cruse H (2013). A hexapod walker using a heterarchical architecture for action selection. accepted by Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
Arena, E., Arena, P., Di Mauro, G., Patanè, L., Strauss, R. Learning motor control in an insect inspired neuro-computational structure" invited paper in preparation in the Special Issue on Advances in Nonlinear Dynamics and Control, in Journal of the Franklin Institute (JFI)
Krause, T., Kienitz, B., Poeck, B., Strauss, R.: The peripersonal space of a fly: Learning body size requires opposing PKA/CREB regulation. (Current state: rejected by Nature, rewritten for Science, ready for submission).
Zill, S.N., Chaudhry, S., Büschges, A. & Schmitz, J. Directional specificity and encoding of muscle forces and loads by stick insect tibial campaniform sensilla, including receptors with round cuticular caps. (submitted to Arthropod Structure and Development)).
Conference Papers
Cruse, H., and Wehner, R. (2011). An insect-inspired, decentralized memory for robot navigation. Proc. Int. Conf. Intell. Robot. Appl. (ICIRA 2011, Aachen).
Drimus A., and Bilberg A. (2011). Novel approaches for bio-inspired mechano-sensors. Proc. Int. Conf. Intell. Robot. Appl. (ICIRA 2011, Aachen).
Hellbach, S., Otto, M., and Dürr, V. (2011). Helping a bio-inspired tactile sensor system to focus on the essential. Proc. Int. Conf. Intell. Robot. Appl. (ICIRA 2011, Aachen).
Schneider, A., Paskarbeit, J., Schäffersmann, M., and Schmitz, J. (2011). Biomechatronics for embodied intelligence of an insectoid robot. Proc. Int. Conf. Intell. Robot. Appl. (ICIRA 2011, Aachen).
Strauss, R., Krause, T., Berg, C., and Zäpf, B. (2011). Higher brain centers for intelligent motor control in insects. Proc. Int. Conf. Intell. Robot. Appl. (ICIRA 2011, Aachen).
Arena, P., Patane, L., Termini, P.S., A. Vitanza, A., and Strauss, R. (2011). Software/Hardware issues in modelling insect brain architecture. Proc. Int. Conf. Intell. Robot. Appl. (ICIRA 2011).
Annunziata, S., Paskarbeit, J., and Schneider, A. (2011). A novel stiffness node controller which enables simultaneous regulation of torque and stiffness in multi-muscle driven joints. Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intell. Robots and Systems
Arena, P., Patanè, L., and Termini, P.S. (2011) An insect brain inspired neural model for object representation and expectation. Proc. 2011 Int Joint Conf. on Neural Networks, San Jose, California
Arena, E., Arena, P., and Patanè, L. (2011) Efficient hexapodal locomotion control based on flow-invariant subspaces. Proc. 18th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
Schneider, A., Paskarbeit, J., Schaeffersmann, M., and Schmitz, J. (2011) HECTOR, a new hexapod robot platform with increased mobility - control approach, design and communication. Proc. 6th International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment
Annunziata, S., Paskarbeit, J., and Schneider, A. (2011). A novel stiffness node controller which enables simultaneous regulation of torque and stiffness in multi-muscle driven joints. Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
Paolo Arena, P., Patanè, L., and Termini, P. (2011) An insect brain inspired neural model for object representation and expectation. Proc. 2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, San Jose, California
Arena, E., Arena, P., and Patanè, L. (2011) Modelling stepping strategies for steeringin Insects. Proc. 21th Italian Workshop on Neural Networks - Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy
Arena, P., Patanè, L., and Termini, P. (2011) Decision making processes in the fruit fly:a computational model. Proc. 21th Italian Workshop on Neural Networks - Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy
Drimus, A., and Bilberg, A. (2011) High Resolution Flexible Tactile Sensors. Proc. DAAAM 2011 Conference, Vienna
Maibohm, C., and Bilberg, A. (2011) Bio-inspired smart sensors for a hexapod robot. Proc. DAAAM 2011 Conference, Vienna
Harischandra, N., & Dürr, V. (2012). A forward model for an active tactile sensor using Echo State Networks. IEEE International Symposium on Robotic and Sensors Environments (ROSE).
Schleif, F.-M., Mokbel, B., Gisbrecht, A., Theunissen, L., Dürr, V., & Hammer, B.(2012). Learning Relevant Time Points for Time-Series Data in the Life Sciences. in: ICANN (2). 531–539.
Schilling, M., Paskarbeit, J., Schmitz, J., Schneider, A., & Cruse, H. (2012). Grounding an internal body model of a hexapod walker - Control of curve walking in a biological inspired robot. Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2762–2768.
Schilling, M., Paskarbeit, J., Schneider, A., & Cruse, H. (2012). Flexible internal body models for motor control: On the convergence of constrained dual quaternion mean of multiple computation networks Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2012. doi: 10.1109/IJCNN.2012.6252846
Szufnarowski, F. & Schneider, A. (2012). Functional analysis of a legged piezoelectric motor based on a physical model of its coupled dynamics, in Proceedings of the International Conference and Exhibition on New Actuators and Drive Systems (Actuator 2012), June 18th - 20th, 2012, Bremen, Germany, 254-257
Arena, E.; Arena, P.; Patanè, L. (2012) CPG-based locomotion generation in a Drosophila inspired legged robot. Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), 2012 4th IEEE RAS & EMBS International Conference on , pp.1341-1346, 24-27 June 2012 doi: 10.1109/BioRob.2012.6290809
Harischandra, N., & Dürr, V. (2013). Predictions of self-induced mechanoreceptive sensor readings in an insect-inspired active tactile sensing system. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines AMAM 2013. 59–62.
Hoinville, T., Wehner, R., & Cruse, H. (in press). Learning and retrieval of memory elements in a navigation task. Proc. Int. Conf. Living Machines 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7375; Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence pp 120-131, Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Annunziata, S., Paskarbeit, J., & Schneider, A. (2013) Bio-inspired elbow impedance modulation using a compliant technical joint drive. in Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR 2013), July 14th – 17th, Sydney, Australia
Paskarbeit, J., Annunziata, S., & Schneider, A. (2013) A resilient robotic actuator based on an integrated sensorized elastomer coupling. in Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR 2013), July 14th – 17th, Sydney, Australia
Arena, P., Di Mauro, G., Krause, T., Patanè, L. and Strauss, R. (accepted) A spiking network for body size learning inspired by the fruit fly. accepted at International Joint Conference on Neural Networks Dallas, TX, August 4-9, 2013
Arena, P., Maceo, S., Patanè, L., and Strauss, R. (accepted) A spiking network for spatial memory formation: towards a fly-inspired Ellipsoid Body model. accepted at International Joint Conference on Neural Networks Dallas, TX, August 4-9, 2013
Arena, P., Caccamo, S., Patanè, L. and Strauss, R. (accepted) A computational model for motor learning in insects. accepted at International Joint Conference on Neural Networks Dallas, TX, August 4-9, 2013