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

Final Report Abstract

No abstract available

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.A., Daun-Gruhn, S.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.01124.2011)
• 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, M., Guschlbauer, C., Daun-Gruhn, S., Hooper, S.L., Büschges, A.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-012-0530-6)
• 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, T.I., Schmidt, J., Büschges, A., Daun-Gruhn, S.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0078247)
• 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, T.I., Grabowska, M., Schmidt, J., Büschges, A., Daun-Gruhn, S.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0078246)