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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Barbara H. Webb is a professor of robotics at the University of Edinburgh. She builds robotic models of insects. Education Webb completed a bachelor's degree in Psychology at the University of Sydney in 1988. She earned her PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh in 1993.
Barbara Webb's Published Works
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Published Works
- Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems (2002) (2801)
- Can robots make good models of biological behaviour? (2001) (362)
- A Model of Non-elemental Associative Learning in the Mushroom Body Neuropil of the Insect Brain (2007) (268)
- What does robotics offer animal behaviour? (2000) (230)
- An Anatomically Constrained Model for Path Integration in the Bee Brain (2017) (218)
- Neural mechanisms for prediction: do insects have forward models? (2004) (184)
- Using robots to model animals: a cricket test (1995) (176)
- Robots in invertebrate neuroscience (2002) (149)
- Multimodal sensory integration in insects—towards insect brain control architectures (2006) (127)
- Using an Insect Mushroom Body Circuit to Encode Route Memory in Complex Natural Environments (2016) (125)
- Spontaneous formation of multiple routes in individual desert ants (Cataglyphis velox) (2012) (116)
- Neural mechanisms of insect navigation. (2016) (115)
- Optimal cue integration in ants (2015) (96)
- New neural circuits for robot phonotaxis (2003) (76)
- Robot phonotaxis in the wild: a biologically inspired approach to outdoor sound localization (2004) (76)
- Simulated and situated models of chemical trail following in ants (1998) (75)
- Biorobotics: Methods and Applications (2002) (71)
- New technologies for testing a model of cricket phonotaxis on an outdoor robot (2005) (69)
- ESANN'2007 proceedings - European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (2007) (67)
- Animals Versus Animats: Or Why Not Model the Real Iguana? (2009) (66)
- A Robot Attracted to the Cricket Species Gryllus bimaculatus (1997) (57)
- Physical and Temporal Scaling Considerations in a Robot Model of Cricket Calling Song Preference (1997) (57)
- Still no convincing evidence for cognitive map use by honeybees (2014) (55)
- Place memory in crickets (2008) (53)
- Evolving a Neural Model of Insect Path Integration (2007) (52)
- Sensorimotor control of navigation in arthropod and artificial systems. (2004) (52)
- How Ants Use Vision When Homing Backward (2017) (52)
- Mushroom Bodies Are Required for Learned Visual Navigation, but Not for Innate Visual Behavior, in Ants (2020) (47)
- Sky segmentation with ultraviolet images can be used for navigation (2014) (47)
- A model of non-elemental olfactory learning in Drosophila (2012) (47)
- Searching for motifs in the behaviour of larval Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans reveals continuity between behavioural states (2015) (46)
- Cognition in insects (2012) (45)
- A model of associative learning in the mushroom body (2008) (44)
- Continuous lateral oscillations as a core mechanism for taxis in Drosophila larvae (2016) (42)
- Robots, crickets and ants: models of neural control of chemotaxis and phonotaxis (1998) (41)
- Entropy-based visual homing (2009) (40)
- Validating biorobotic models (2006) (40)
- The internal maps of insects (2019) (39)
- Modelling place memory in crickets (2009) (36)
- Chapter 1 Using Robots to Understand Animal Behavior (2008) (34)
- The head direction circuit of two insect species (2019) (33)
- Integrating sensorimotor systems in a robot model of cricket behavior (2000) (33)
- A dynamic model of thoracic differentiation for the control of turning in the stick insect (2007) (33)
- Visual Tracking of Small Animals in Cluttered Natural Environments Using a Freely Moving Camera (2017) (31)
- How variation in head pitch could affect image matching algorithms for ant navigation (2015) (31)
- Elemental and non-elemental olfactory learning in Drosophila (2011) (30)
- A model of visual–olfactory integration for odour localisation in free-flying fruit flies (2010) (30)
- The Central Complex as a Potential Substrate for Vector Based Navigation (2019) (29)
- A Model of Drosophila Larva Chemotaxis (2015) (29)
- Reafferent or Redundant: Integration of Phonotaxis and Optomotor Behavior in Crickets and Robots (2003) (28)
- Towards image-based animal tracking in natural environments using a freely moving camera (2019) (26)
- From skylight input to behavioural output: A computational model of the insect polarised light compass (2018) (26)
- Resonant neurons and bushcricket behaviour (2007) (26)
- Fabrication and characterization of a wind sensor for integration with a neuron circuit (2007) (25)
- Neuromorphic Control of Stepping Pattern Generation: A Dynamic Model With Analog Circuit Implementation (2012) (24)
- Skyline-based localisation for aggressively manoeuvring robots using UV sensors and spherical harmonics (2016) (24)
- Dietary Salt Levels Affect Salt Preference and Learning in Larval Drosophila (2011) (23)
- Rotation invariant visual processing for spatial memory in insects (2018) (20)
- Modelling the mechanics of exploration in larval Drosophila (2019) (20)
- Ant Homing Ability Is Not Diminished When Traveling Backwards (2016) (19)
- Software to convert terrestrial LiDAR scans of natural environments into photorealistic meshes (2018) (18)
- Adaptation of Controllers for Image-Based Homing (2006) (16)
- A Model of Larval Biomechanics Reveals Exploitable Passive Properties for Efficient Locomotion (2015) (15)
- A hexapod robot modeled on the stick insect, Carausius morosus (2011) (15)
- A unified mechanism for innate and learned visual landmark guidance in the insect central complex (2021) (15)
- Robots with insect brains (2020) (15)
- A model of antennal wall-following and escape in the cockroach (2006) (14)
- Detailed tracking of body and leg movements of a freely walking female cricket during phonotaxis (2012) (12)
- 9th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (2007) (12)
- Visual Appearance Analysis of Forest Scenes for Monocular SLAM (2019) (11)
- Perception in real and artificial insects: a robotic investigation of cricket phonotaxis (1993) (10)
- A Framework for Models of Biological Behaviour (1999) (10)
- Eyes and ears: combining sensory motor systems modelled on insect physiology (2000) (10)
- A Soft Pneumatic Maggot Robot (2016) (10)
- A Neuromechanical Model of Larval Chemotaxis. (2018) (10)
- Directional hearing in a silicon cricket (2007) (9)
- Route-following ants respond to alterations of the view sequence (2020) (9)
- Multimodal Predictive Control in Crickets (2010) (8)
- A Cricket-Controlled Robot Orienting towards a Sound Source (2011) (8)
- View From the Boundary (2001) (8)
- Robots can be (good) models (2001) (7)
- Place Recognition with Event-based Cameras and a Neural Implementation of SeqSLAM (2015) (7)
- New Ears for a Robot Cricket (2005) (7)
- Spatio-temporal Memory for Navigation in a Mushroom Body Model (2020) (7)
- A neural model for insect steering applied to olfaction and path integration (2020) (7)
- Inconsistencies in C. elegans behavioural annotation (2016) (6)
- A Neuromorphic Hair Sensor Model of Wind-Mediated Escape in the Cricket (1999) (6)
- A Bio-inspired Reinforcement Learning Rule to Optimise Dynamical Neural Networks for Robot Control (2018) (5)
- A motion compensation treadmill for untethered wood ants (Formica rufa): evidence for transfer of orientation memories from free-walking training (2020) (5)
- The Control of Turning in Real and Simulated Stick Insects (2006) (5)
- Reafferent or redundant: How should a robot cricket use an optomotor reflex? Running title: A robot cricket with an optomotor reflex (2003) (5)
- An incentive circuit for memory dynamics in the mushroom body of Drosophila melanogaster (2021) (5)
- Testing a model of cricket phonotaxis on an outdoor robot platform (4)
- Monitoring brain activity and behaviour in freely moving Drosophila larvae using bioluminescence (2018) (4)
- Integration of Wind Sensors and Analogue VLSI for an Insect-Inspired Robot (2007) (4)
- Lost in the Woods? Place Recognition for Navigation in Difficult Forest Environments (2020) (4)
- A neural model of cross-modal association in insects (2007) (3)
- Looking down: a model for visual route following in flying insects (2021) (3)
- Implementing an Insect Brain Computational Circuit Using III–V Nanowire Components in a Single Shared Waveguide Optical Network (2020) (3)
- Insect Behaviour: Controlling Flight Altitude with Optic Flow (2007) (3)
- Using the Neural Circuit of the Insect Central Complex for Path Integration on a Micro Aerial Vehicle (2020) (3)
- Object manipulation without hands (2021) (2)
- Transfer of orientation memories in untethered wood ants (Formica rufa) from walking in an arena to walking on a motion compensation treadmill (2020) (2)
- A model of operant learning based on chaotically varying synaptic strength (2018) (2)
- Perception for Action in Insects (2009) (2)
- From insects to robots. (2017) (2)
- Route-following ants respond to alterations of the view sequence. (2020) (2)
- Distributed control systems for biologically inspired robotics (2004) (2)
- Impact of central complex lesions on visual orientation in ants: Turning behaviour, but not the overall movement direction, is disrupted (2021) (2)
- Mechanics of exploration in Drosophila melanogaster (2018) (2)
- Issues in Invertebrate Learning Raised by Robot Models (2013) (2)
- Spiking neuron controllers for a sound localising robot (2008) (2)
- Response: The Power of Selection (2009) (2)
- Predator Evasion by a Robocrab (2017) (2)
- A physical theory of larval Drosophila behaviour (2020) (2)
- Linking brain and behaviour in animal navigation: navigation from genes to maps (2019) (1)
- Small brains and minimalist emulation: When is an internal model no longer a model? (2004) (1)
- Author response: Continuous lateral oscillations as a core mechanism for taxis in Drosophila larvae (2016) (1)
- The neural architecture of the insect mushroom body can encode route memory in complex natural environments (2014) (1)
- Animals versus Animats: or Why Not the Real Iguana? (2006) (1)
- A unified mechanism to support innate and learned use of visual landmark guidance in insects (2021) (1)
- Multisensory architectures for action-oriented perception (2007) (1)
- An Arbitrary Architecture for an Artificial Arthropod (2000) (1)
- Path Integration Using a Model of e-Vector Orientation Coding in the Insect Brain: Reply to Vickerstaff and Di Paolo (2008) (1)
- Using robots to model biological behaviour (2008) (1)
- Mushroom bodies are required for accurate visual navigation in ants (2020) (1)
- Visual-olfactory integration in free-flying Drosophila (2006) (0)
- Bioluminescence-based approach to monitor neural activity in freely moving Drosophilalarvae (2016) (0)
- Explorer Neural mechanisms of insect navigation (2017) (0)
- CATER: Combined Animal Tracking & Environment Reconstruction (2023) (0)
- Explorer Predator Evasion by a Robocrab (2017) (0)
- – Geophysical Equipment Facility ( GEF Loan 967 ) (2014) (0)
- A virtuous cycle between invertebrate and robotics research: perspective on a decade of Living Machines research (2023) (0)
- Ants can decouple their travel direction from their body orientation Authors (2017) (0)
- A Combined Behavioural and Robotic Study of Auditory and Visual Integration in Gryllus bimaculatus (2007) (0)
- Optimal linear estimation of self-motion - a real-world test of a model of fly tangential neurons (2002) (0)
- Sensorimotor control in insects and robots (1996) (0)
- Low Level Approaches to Cognitive Control (2009) (0)
- The Mushroom Body Pathway within a Chemotaxis Sensory-motor Loop (2016) (0)
- Optoelectronic III-V nanowire implementation of a neural network in a shared waveguide (2020) (0)
- Monitoring brain activity and behaviour in freely moving Drosophila larvae using bioluminescence (2018) (0)
- Impact of central complex lesions on innate and learnt visual navigation in ants. (2023) (0)
- Combining several sensorimotor systems: from insects to robot implementations (2008) (0)
- Corrigendum to "A model of operant learning based on chaotically varying synaptic strength" [Neural Netw. 108 (2018) 114-127] (2019) (0)
- Investigating acoustic localization using artificial ears (1996) (0)
- Vision-based route following by an embodied insect-inspired sparse neural network (2023) (0)
- Weighted cue integration for straight-line orientation (2022) (0)
- Insect Vision 1.0.1 v1 (2019) (0)
- Tracking the foraging behaviour of individual desert ants using Differential GPS (2013) (0)
- Exploiting body mechanics to produce exploratory behaviour. (2016) (0)
- A physical theory of movement in small animals (2020) (0)
- Current Biology Report How Ants Use Vision When Homing Backward (2018) (0)
- A model of non-elemental olfactory learning in Drosophila (2011) (0)
- How variation in head pitch could affect image matching algorithms for ant navigation (2015) (0)
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