Nonlinear Circuits and Systems for Neuro-inspired Robot Control / SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (PDF)

Electronic Engineering, discussing a work entitled: "Bio-inspired Robots: from Sensing toward Perception". Since May 2005 he has been a research grant assignee at the University of Catania, with the research program: "Bio inspired architecture for the motion system control". His research activities focus on Bio-inspired robotics, adaptation and learning in dynamical systems, insect inspired cognitive algorithms, and Hardware realization of bio-inspired control systems. He was actively involved in several research projects: Project "Office of the Naval Research" 2003-2004 "A CNN-based hybrid locomotion controller", EU Project SPARK I and II, "Spatial-Temporal Patterns for Action-Oriented Perception in Roving Robots" and EMICAB. He is a member of the European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems Interaction and Robotics (EUCogII Network). He has published more than 60 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings and several chapters in books in the field of control and bio-robotics.

 

Roland Strauss studied Physics at the University of Würzburg, Germany and State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany, USA (Diplom and M.Sc.). He received his Ph.D. in Neurobiology in 1991 from the University of Würzburg/, Germany. Until 1998 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany. In 1998 he received theBioFuture Award. He participated in the Group established in 1999 at the Biocenter of the University of Würzburg, Germany. He received his Habilitation in Neurobiology in 2003. He was a Member of the collaborative research centre "Arthropod behaviour" of the German Science Foundation (DFG). Since 2006 he has been Full Professor of Neurobiology at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. His research interests include the control of behavior in insects, locomotor control, visual orientation, Drosophila as a model for human diseases, and robot modeling. 



Strauss has organized European and International conferences on Drosophila neurobiology. He has been awarded a Visiting Scientist Grant of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the Janelia Research Campus, Washington DC. Prof. Strauss research focuses on Drosophila mutant lines to provide information crucial to derive models and neuronal circuits underlying insect behaviors.