Neuronal control of 6-legged locomotion

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Silvia Daun
• Subject Area: Automation, Mechatronics, Control Systems, Intelligent Technical Systems, Robotics
• Term: from 2009 to 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 100760332

• Final Report Year: 2016

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Publications

• 2011. A mathematical modeling study of inter-segmental coordination during stick insect walking, J Computat Neurosci, 30(2), 255-278
  Daun-Gruhn, S.
  
• 2011. A putative neuronal network controlling the activity of the leg motoneurons of the stick insect. NeuroReport, 22(18), 943-946
  Tóth, T.I. and Daun-Gruhn, S.
  
• 2011. An inter-segmental network model and its use in elucidating gait-switches in the stick insect, J Comput Neurosci, 31(1), 43-60
  Daun-Gruhn, S. and Tóth, T.I.
  
• 2011. Dominance of local load signals over inter-segmental effects in a motor system. I. Experiments, Biol Cybern, 105(5), 399-411
  Borgmann, A., Tóth, T.I., Gruhn, M., Daun-Gruhn, S., Büschges, A.
  
• 2011. Dominance of local load signals over intersegmental effects in a motor system. II. Simulation studies, Biol Cybern, 105(5), 413-426
  Daun-Gruhn, S., Tóth, T.I., Borgmann, A.
  
• 2012. A neuro-mechanical model explaining forward and backward stepping in the stick insect. J Neurophysiol, 107(12), 3267-3280
  Tóth, T. I.; Knops, S. & Daun-Gruhn, S.
  
• 2012. A neuromechanical model for curve walking in the stick insect. J Neurophysiol, 109(3), 679-691
  nops, S., Toth, T.I., Guschlbauer, C., Gruhn, M., Daun-Gruhn, S.
  
• 2012. Hilltype muscle model parameters determined from experiments on single muscles show large animalto-animal variation. Biol Cybern, 106(10), 559-571
  Blümel, Marcus; Guschlbauer, Christoph; Daun-Gruhn, Silvia; Hooper, Scott L. & Büschges, Ansgar
  
• 2012. Quadrupedal gaits in hexapod animals – Stepping patterns in free-walking adult stick insects. J Exp Biol, 215, 4255-426
  Grabowska, M., Godlewska, E., Schmidt, J., Daun-Gruhn, S.
  
• 2013. A neuro-mechanical model of a single leg joint highlighting the fundamental physiological role of fast and slow muscle fibres of an insect muscle system. PLOS ONE
  Toth, Tibor Istvan; Schmidt, Joachim; Büschges, Ansgar & Daun-Gruhn, Silvia
  
• 2013. A neuromechanical model explaining the physiological role of fast and slow muscle fibres at stop and start of stepping of an insect leg. PLOS ONE
  Toth, Tibor Istvan; Grabowska, Martyna; Schmidt, Joachim; Büschges, Ansgar & Daun-Gruhn, Silvia