Insect-inspired AI for autonomous robots

An Efficient and Scalable Collection of Fly-Inspired Voting Units for Visual Place Recognition in Changing Environments

(2022) Bruno Arcanjo et al.   IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Animal Cognition: The Self-Image of a Bumblebee

(2021) Joanna Brebner et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Haltere and visual inputs sum linearly to predict wing (but not gaze) motor output in tethered flying Drosophila

(2021) Michael J. Rauscher et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Learning with reinforcement prediction errors in a model of the Drosophila mushroom body

(2021) James E. M. Bennett et al.   Nature Communications

Movements, embodiment and the emergence of decisions. Insights from insect navigation

(2021) Antoine Wystrach   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

PRGFlow: Unified SWAP‐aware deep global optical flow for aerial robot navigation

(2021) Nitin J. Sanket et al.   ELECTRONICS LETTERS

RoboFly: An Insect-Sized Robot With Simplified Fabrication That Is Capable of Flight, Ground, and Water Surface Locomotion

(2021) Yogesh M. Chukewad et al.   IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Ultralow-Power Localization of Insect-Scale Drones: Interplay of Probabilistic Filtering and Compute-in-Memory

(2021) Priyesh Shukla et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS

Dendritic action potentials and computation in human layer 2/3 cortical neurons

(2020) Albert Gidon et al.   SCIENCE

Bumble bees display cross-modal object recognition between visual and tactile senses

(2020) Cwyn Solvi et al.   SCIENCE

Opponent processes in visual memories: A model of attraction and repulsion in navigating insects’ mushroom bodies

(2020) Florent Le Möel et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

The Drosophila Mushroom Body: From Architecture to Algorithm in a Learning Circuit

(2020) Mehrab N. Modi et al.   Annual Review of Neuroscience

Robots with insect brains

(2020) Barbara Webb   SCIENCE

Dynamic obstacle avoidance for quadrotors with event cameras

(2020) Davide Falanga et al.   Science Robotics

A short history of studies on intelligence and brain in honeybees

(2020) Randolf Menzel   APIDOLOGIE

A decentralised neural model explaining optimal integration of navigational strategies in insects

(2020) Xuelong Sun et al.   eLife

A bug’s-eye view

(2020) Yiannis Aloimonos et al.   Science Robotics

Wireless steerable vision for live insects and insect-scale robots

(2020) Vikram Iyer et al.   Science Robotics

A bio-hybrid odor-guided autonomous palm-sized air vehicle

(2020) Melanie Joyce Anderson et al.   Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

A connectome and analysis of the adult Drosophila central brain

(2020) Louis K Scheffer et al.   eLife

Mechanisms of collision recovery in flying beetles and flapping-wing robots

(2020) Hoang Vu Phan et al.   SCIENCE

Event-Based Vision: A Survey

(2020) Guillermo Gallego et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE

A bio-inspired sighted robot chase like a hoverfly

(2019) Fabien Colonnier et al.   Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

The internal maps of insects

(2019) Barbara Webb   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Unique nest entrance structure of Partamona helleri stingless bees leads to remarkable ‘crash-landing’ behaviour

(2019) K. Shackleton et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

A Computationally Efficient Semantic SLAM Solution for Dynamic Scenes

(2019) Zemin Wang et al.   Remote Sensing

Minimal navigation solution for a swarm of tiny flying robots to explore an unknown environment

(2019) K. N. McGuire et al.   Science Robotics

Parameter Optimization and Learning in a Spiking Neural Network for UAV Obstacle Avoidance Targeting Neuromorphic Processors

(2019) Llewyn Salt et al.   IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

How Many Species of Insects and Other Terrestrial Arthropods Are There on Earth?

(2018) Nigel E. Stork   Annual Review of Entomology

Loihi: A Neuromorphic Manycore Processor with On-Chip Learning

(2018) Mike Davies et al.   IEEE MICRO

Towards efficient and scalable visual homing

(2018) Annett Stelzer et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH

Scalable co-optimization of morphology and control in embodied machines

(2018) Nick Cheney et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

A tailless aerial robotic flapper reveals that flies use torque coupling in rapid banked turns

(2018) Matěj Karásek et al.   SCIENCE

Virtual reality for freely moving animals

(2017) John R Stowers et al.   NATURE METHODS

Energy efficient parallel neuromorphic architectures with approximate arithmetic on FPGA

(2017) Qian Wang et al.   NEUROCOMPUTING

Ring attractor dynamics in theDrosophilacentral brain

(2017) Sung Soo Kim et al.   SCIENCE

A neural algorithm for a fundamental computing problem

(2017) Sanjoy Dasgupta et al.   SCIENCE

Climbing favours the tripod gait over alternative faster insect gaits

(2017) Pavan Ramdya et al.   Nature Communications

Microsaccadic sampling of moving image information provides Drosophila hyperacute vision

(2017) Mikko Juusola et al.   eLife

A computational model of the integration of landmarks and motion in the insect central complex

(2017) Alex J. Cope et al.   PLoS One

Artificial compound eye: a survey of the state-of-the-art

(2016) Sidong Wu et al.   ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REVIEW

How Wasps Acquire and Use Views for Homing

(2016) Wolfgang Stürzl et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A Model for an Angular Velocity-Tuned Motion Detector Accounting for Deviations in the Corridor-Centering Response of the Bee

(2016) Alex J. Cope et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Evolution of Collective Behaviors for a Real Swarm of Aquatic Surface Robots

(2016) Miguel Duarte et al.   PLoS One

Two identified looming detectors in the locust: ubiquitous lateral connections among their inputs contribute to selective responses to looming objects

(2016) F. Claire Rind et al.   Scientific Reports

Small Is Beautiful: Features of the Smallest Insects and Limits to Miniaturization

(2015) Alexey A. Polilov   Annual Review of Entomology

Neural dynamics for landmark orientation and angular path integration

(2015) Johannes D. Seelig et al.   NATURE

Autonomous Vision-Based Navigation of a Quadrotor in Corridor-Like Environments

(2015) Jishnu Keshavan et al.   International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles

Plume-Tracking Behavior of Flying Drosophila Emerges from a Set of Distinct Sensory-Motor Reflexes

(2014) Floris van Breugel et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Neurogrid: A Mixed-Analog-Digital Multichip System for Large-Scale Neural Simulations

(2014) Ben Varkey Benjamin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE

The SpiNNaker Project

(2014) Steve B. Furber et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE

FlyingDrosophilastabilize their vision-based velocity controller by sensing wind with their antennae

(2014) Sawyer Buckminster Fuller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A million spiking-neuron integrated circuit with a scalable communication network and interface

(2014) P. A. Merolla et al.   SCIENCE

Flies Evade Looming Targets by Executing Rapid Visually Directed Banked Turns

(2014) F. T. Muijres et al.   SCIENCE

Hardware Architecture and Cutting-Edge Assembly Process of a Tiny Curved Compound Eye

(2014) Stéphane Viollet et al.   SENSORS

AutoMoDe: A novel approach to the automatic design of control software for robot swarms

(2014) Gianpiero Francesca et al.   Swarm Intelligence

Robo Raven: A Flapping-Wing Air Vehicle with Highly Compliant and Independently Controlled Wings

(2014) John Gerdes et al.   Soft Robotics

Death Valley, Drosophila, and the Devonian Toolkit

(2013) Michael H. Dickinson   Annual Review of Entomology

Vision meets robotics: The KITTI dataset

(2013) A Geiger et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH

Bumblebee calligraphy: the design and control of flight motifs in the learning and return flights of Bombus terrestris

(2013) A. Philippides et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

A Collision-resilient Flying Robot

(2013) Adrien Briod et al.   Journal of Field Robotics

Self body-size perception in an insect

(2013) Amir Ben-Nun et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

A universal strategy for visually guided landing

(2013) E. Baird et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Miniature curved artificial compound eyes

(2013) Dario Floreano et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Controlled Flight of a Biologically Inspired, Insect-Scale Robot

(2013) K. Y. Ma et al.   SCIENCE

Swarm robotics: a review from the swarm engineering perspective

(2013) Manuele Brambilla et al.   Swarm Intelligence

Visual simultaneous localization and mapping: a survey

(2012) Jorge Fuentes-Pacheco et al.   ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REVIEW

A Model of Ant Route Navigation Driven by Scene Familiarity

(2012) Bart Baddeley et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

The VODKA Sensor: A Bio-Inspired Hyperacute Optical Position Sensing Device

(2011) L. Kerhuel et al.   IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL

Landing a VTOL Unmanned Aerial Vehicle on a Moving Platform Using Optical Flow

(2011) B. Herissé et al.   IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Vertical distribution, flight behaviour and evolution of wing morphology in Morpho butterflies

(2010) P. J. DeVries et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

A model of associative learning in the mushroom body

(2008) Darren Smith et al.   BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS

Optic-Flow-Based Collision Avoidance

(2008) William Green et al.   IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE

The First Takeoff of a Biologically Inspired At-Scale Robotic Insect

(2008) R.J. Wood   IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Navigational Strategies Used by Insects to Find Distant, Wind-Borne Sources of Odor

(2008) Ring T. Cardé et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY