Reproducing Five Motor Behaviors in a Salamander Robot With Virtual Muscles and a Distributed CPG Controller Regulated by Drive Signals and Proprioceptive Feedback

Modeling of the neural mechanism underlying the terrestrial turning of the salamander

(2020) Qiang Liu et al.   BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS

Sensory Neurons Contacting the Cerebrospinal Fluid Require the Reissner Fiber to Detect Spinal Curvature In Vivo

(2020) Adeline Orts-Del’Immagine et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Central Pattern Generating Networks in Insect Locomotion

(2020) Charalampos Mantziaris et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

Brainstem neurons that command mammalian locomotor asymmetries

(2020) Jared M. Cregg et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Decentralized control of insect walking: A simple neural network explains a wide range of behavioral and neurophysiological results

(2020) Malte Schilling et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Walking with Salamanders: From Molecules to Biorobotics

(2020) Dimitri Ryczko et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Current Principles of Motor Control, with Special Reference to Vertebrate Locomotion

(2019) Sten Grillner et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

A new model of the spinal locomotor networks of a salamander and its properties

(2018) Qiang Liu et al.   BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS

Distinct Contributions of Mesencephalic Locomotor Region Nuclei to Locomotor Control in the Freely Behaving Mouse

(2018) Nicolas Josset et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Midbrain circuits that set locomotor speed and gait selection

(2018) V. Caggiano et al.   NATURE

Principles Governing Locomotion in Vertebrates: Lessons From Zebrafish

(2018) Eva M. Berg et al.   Frontiers in Neural Circuits

The neural control of interlimb coordination during mammalian locomotion

(2017) Alain Frigon   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Locomotor speed control circuits in the caudal brainstem

(2017) Paolo Capelli et al.   NATURE

Mechanosensory neurons control the timing of spinal microcircuit selection during locomotion

(2017) Steven Knafo et al.   eLife

Intraspinal Sensory Neurons Provide Powerful Inhibition to Motor Circuits Ensuring Postural Control during Locomotion

(2016) Jeffrey Michael Hubbard et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

From cineradiography to biorobots: an approach for designing robots to emulate and study animal locomotion

(2016) K. Karakasiliotis et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Decoding the organization of spinal circuits that control locomotion

(2016) Ole Kiehn   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Ciliated neurons lining the central canal sense both fluid movement and pH through ASIC3

(2016) Elham Jalalvand et al.   Nature Communications

CSF-contacting neurons regulate locomotion by relaying mechanical stimuli to spinal circuits

(2016) Urs Lucas Böhm et al.   Nature Communications

The effect of waist twisting on walking speed of an amphibious salamander like robot

(2015) Xin-Yan Yin et al.   ACTA MECHANICA SINICA

The mesencephalic locomotor region sends a bilateral glutamatergic drive to hindbrain reticulospinal neurons in a tetrapod

(2015) Dimitri Ryczko et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Flexibility of the axial central pattern generator network for locomotion in the salamander

(2015) D. Ryczko et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Muscle Spindle Feedback Directs Locomotor Recovery and Circuit Reorganization after Spinal Cord Injury

(2014) Aya Takeoka et al.   CELL

Improved Lighthill fish swimming model for bio-inspired robots: Modeling, computational aspects and experimental comparisons

(2014) Mathieu Porez et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH

Separate Microcircuit Modules of Distinct V2a Interneurons and Motoneurons Control the Speed of Locomotion

(2014) Konstantinos Ampatzis et al.   NEURON

Degradation of mouse locomotor pattern in the absence of proprioceptive sensory feedback

(2014) Turgay Akay et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

From lamprey to salamander: an exploratory modeling study on the architecture of the spinal locomotor networks in the salamander

(2013) Andrej Bicanski et al.   BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS

The Multifunctional Mesencephalic Locomotor Region

(2013) Dimitri Ryczko et al.   CURRENT PHARMACEUTICAL DESIGN

Salamandra Robotica II: An Amphibious Robot to Study Salamander-Like Swimming and Walking Gaits

(2013) Alessandro Crespi et al.   IEEE Transactions on Robotics

A Salamander's Flexible Spinal Network for Locomotion, Modeled at Two Levels of Abstraction

(2013) J. Knusel et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Intraspinal stretch receptor neurons mediate different motor responses along the body in lamprey

(2013) Li-Ju Hsu et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Dual-mode operation of neuronal networks involved in left–right alternation

(2013) Adolfo E. Talpalar et al.   NATURE

Fictive rhythmic motor patterns produced by the tail spinal cord in salamanders

(2013) V. Charrier et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Optogenetic dissection reveals multiple rhythmogenic modules underlying locomotion

(2013) M. Hagglund et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Modular functional organisation of the axial locomotor system in salamanders

(2013) Jean-Marie Cabelguen et al.   ZOOLOGY

Where are we in understanding salamander locomotion: biological and robotic perspectives on kinematics

(2012) Konstantinos Karakasiliotis et al.   BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS

Spinal and Supraspinal Control of the Direction of Stepping during Locomotion

(2012) P. E. Musienko et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The hemisegmental locomotor network revisited

(2012) L. Cangiano et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Neurobiology of the crustacean swimmeret system

(2012) Brian Mulloney et al.   PROGRESS IN NEUROBIOLOGY

A structural and functional ground plan for neurons in the hindbrain of zebrafish

(2011) A. Kinkhabwala et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sensory feedback plays a significant role in generating walking gait and in gait transition in salamanders: a simulation study

(2011) Nalin Harischandra   Frontiers in Neurorobotics

Segmental Oscillators in Axial Motor Circuits of the Salamander: Distribution and Bursting Mechanisms

(2010) Dimitri Ryczko et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

The Transformation of a Unilateral Locomotor Command into a Symmetrical Bilateral Activation in the Brainstem

(2010) F. Brocard et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Principles governing recruitment of motoneurons during swimming in zebrafish

(2010) Jens Peter Gabriel et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Interactions between internal forces, body stiffness, and fluid environment in a neuromechanical model of lamprey swimming

(2010) E. D. Tytell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A 3D Musculo-Mechanical Model of the Salamander for the Study of Different Gaits and Modes of Locomotion

(2010) Nalin Harischandra et al.   Frontiers in Neurorobotics

Activity of trunk muscles during aquatic and terrestrial locomotion in Ambystoma maculatum

(2009) S. M. Deban et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Kinematics of level terrestrial and underwater walking in the California newt,Taricha torosa

(2009) Miriam A. Ashley-Ross et al.   Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A-Ecological Genetics and Physiology

Coordination of Rhythmic Motor Activity by Gradients of Synaptic Strength in a Neural Circuit That Couples Modular Neural Oscillators

(2009) C. Smarandache et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Optogenetic dissection of a behavioural module in the vertebrate spinal cord

(2009) Claire Wyart et al.   NATURE

Simple cellular and network control principles govern complex patterns of motor behavior

(2009) A. Kozlov et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Continuous shifts in the active set of spinal interneurons during changes in locomotor speed

(2008) David L McLean et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Organisation of the spinal central pattern generators for locomotion in the salamander: Biology and modelling

(2007) Stéphanie Chevallier et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH REVIEWS