Journal papers

"Whiskerbot: A Robotic Active Touch System Modeled on the Rat Whisker Sensory System."
Martin J. Pearson, Anthony G. Pipe, Chris Melhuish, Ben Mitchinson and Tony J. Prescott.
Adaptive Behavior, 2007, 15:223-240.
DOI link

"Spike-timing in primary sensory neurons: A model of somatosensory transduction in the rat."
B. Mitchinson, E. Arabzadeh, M. E. Diamond, T. J. Prescott.
Biological Cybernetics, 2008, 98(3):185-194.
DOI link

"Feedback Control in Active Sensing: Contact with the Environment Induces Whisking Asymmetry in Freely Moving Rats."
Ben Mitchinson, Chris J. Martin, Robyn A. Grant, Tony J. Prescott.
Royal Society Proc (B) Biol. Sci., 2007, 274:1035-1041.
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"Implementing Spiking Neural Networks for Real-Time Signal Processing and Control Applications: A Model Validated FPGA Approach"
M.J. Pearson, A.G. Pipe, B.Mitchinson, K.Gurney, C.Melhuish, I.Gilhespy and M.Nibouche
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 18(5):1472-1487 (2007).
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"A Biomimetic Haptic Sensor"
Martin J. Pearson, Ian Gilhespy, Chris Melhuish, Ben Mitchinson, Mokhtar Nibouche, Anthony G. Pipe, Tony J. Prescott.
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems Dec 2005; 2(4):335-343.
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"Empirically inspired simulated electro-mechanical model of the rat mystacial follicle-sinus-complex"
Ben Mitchinson, Kevin Gurney, Peter Redgrave, Chris Melhuish, Tony Pipe, Martin Pearson, Ian Gilhespy, Tony Prescott.
Royal Society Proc (B) Biol. Sci. Dec 7 2004; 271(1556):2509-16.
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Conference papers

"Further work on a biomimetic haptic sensor array for mobile robotics"
M.J. Pearson. I.Gilhespy, C.Melhuish, B.Mitchinson, M.Nibouche, A.G. Pipe, T.J. Prescott
Presented by Tony Pipe at Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS), Guildford, 4th-6th Sept 2006.


"A Model of Sensorimotor Coordination in the Rat Whisker System"
Mitchinson B, Pearson M, Melhuish C, Prescott TJ
Proceedings of The International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (ISAB), Rome, 25th-29th Sept 2006.
Preprint (PDF)

"A Real-Time, FPGA based, Biologically Plausible Neural Network Processor"
Pearson M, Gilhespy I, Gurney K, Melhuish C, Mitchinson B, Nibouche M, Pipe A
Presented by Martin Pearson at International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Warsaw, 11th-15th Sept 2005 (ICANN 2005).
Proceedings hosted by Celoxica (PDF), Publisher's site

"A Biologically Inspired Haptic Sensor Array for use in Mobile Robotic Vehicles"
Martin J. Pearson, Ian Gilhespy, Chris Melhuish, Ben Mitchinson, Mokhtar Nibouche, Anthony G. Pipe, Tony J. Prescott
Presented by Ben Mitchinson at Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS), London, 12th-14th Sept 2005.
Proceedings (PDF)

Posters and talks

"A Hardware Based Implementation of a Tactile Sensory System for Neuromorphic Signal Processing Applications"
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 14-19, Toulouse, France.

"Whisking Policy in the Behaving Rat - Can Behavioural Data Illuminate Physiological Data?"
Invited seminar at Le Centre de Recherche Universite Laval Robert-Giffard, Quebec, May 12th 2006.

"A spiking neuron model of sensorimotor co-ordination in the rat whisker system"
GRSNC XXVIII International Symposium on Computational Neuroscience, Montreal, May 8-9 2006.

"Three-dimensional reconstruction of whisking patterns in freely moving rats"
Presented by Tony Prescott at Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Washington, USA, 2005, abstract number 625.3.


"A computational model of a brainstem loop for whisker pattern generation"
Presented by Ben Mitchinson at Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Washington, USA, 2005, abstract number 625.4.


"Artificial, Active Vibrissal Array Modelling the Mechanics and Neurology of Rat Whisking"
Presented by Ben Mitchinson and Tony Prescott at Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Washington, USA, 2005, abstract number 625.5.


"Whisking control in the freely behaving rat"
Presented by Ben Mitchinson at Barrels XVIII, Baltimore, 10-11 November 2005.


"Design and FPGA Implementation of an Embedded Real-Time Biologically Plausible Spiking Neural Network"
Presented by Martin Pearson at International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), Tampere, Finland, 24th-26th August 2005 (FPL 2005).
Poster (Main Hall) (PNG)
Poster (PhD Symposium) (PNG)

"A real time leaky-integrate-and-fire neural network processor using field programmable gate array"
Presented by Mokhtar Nibouche at 2004 IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT'04), Brisbane, 6th-8th December 2004.
Poster Presentation (JPG)

"Towards a robot whisker system modelled on the rat mystacial vibrissae"
Presented by Ben Mitchinson and Martin Pearson at Towards Artificial Rodents, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, 26th - 27th July 2004.
Powerpoint Presentation

"WhiskerBot: A biologically inspired mobile robot sensory modality"
Presented by Martin Pearson at ASAB Easter workshop, Sussex University, Brighton, UK, 31st March - 2nd April 2004.
Poster Presentation (GIF)

"Empirically inspired model of a rat mystacial follicle"
Presented by Ben Mitchinson at Barrel Cortex Meeting, Lausanne, Switzerland, 19th - 20th February 2004.
Powerpoint Presentation