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Publications

Journal Papers     
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Using hardware models to quantify sensory data acquisition across the rat vibrissal array (2007) Gopal V, and Hartmann MJZ The Journal of Bioinspiration and Biomimetics 2:S135-S145.  PDF


Biomechanical models for radial distance determination by the rat vibrissal system. (2007)  Birdwell JA, Solomon JH, Thajchayapong M, Taylor MA, Cheely M, Towal RB, Conradt J, and Hartmann  MJZ Journal of Neurophysiology 98: 2439-2455.   PDF  
 Note:  Due to a typesetting error, equation A14 is incorrect as published. It should be identical to the bottom half of equation 4 in the main text.


Sensing features with robotic whiskers. (2006)  Solomon JH and Hartmann MJ. Nature 443:525.   Full Text PDF
Supplementary Equations and Methods
Supplementary Video (WMV, 469 KB)
Other figures and movies associated with this publication (zip file, 13,047 KB)
Press Coverage
Right-left asymmetries in the whisking behavior of rats anticipate head movements. (2006). Towal, RB and Hartmann MJ. Journal of Neuroscience 26(34):8838–8846. PDF
Supplementary Materials:


Haptically Linked Dyads: Are Two Motor-Control Systems Better Than One? (2006)  Kyle Reed, Michael Peshkin, Mitra J. Hartmann, Marcia Grabowecky, James Patton, and Peter M. Vishton. Psychological Science, 17(5) 365-366. PDF     Here is the APS Press Release


Correlation between Purkinje cell unit activity and granule cell layer field potentials: an in vivo extracellular study. (2005) Lu H, Hartmann MJ, and Bower JM. Journal of Neurophysiology. 94:1849-1860.  PDF


Mechanical characteristics of rat vibrissae: Resonant frequencies and damping in isolated whiskers and in the awake behaving animal. (2003) Hartmann MJ, Johnson NJ, Towal RB, Assad C Journal of Neuroscience 23(16): 6510-6519.  PDF

An in silico central pattern generator: silicon oscillator, coupling, entrainment, and physical computation. (2002)  Lewis MA, Etienne-Cummings R, Hartmann MJ, Xu ZR, Cohen AH  Biological Cybernetics  88 (2):137-151.  PDF


Introduction to the special issue on biomorphic robotics. (2001)  Assad C, Hartmann MJ, Lewis MA  Autonomous Robots  11 (3): 195-200.  PDF


Active sensing capabilities of the rat whisker system. (2001) Hartmann, MJ  Autonomous Robots 11 (3): 249-254. PDF
Tactile responses in the granule cell layer of cerebellar folium Crus IIa (2001)  Hartmann MJ, Bower JM  of freely behaving rats. Journal of Neuroscience 21 (10): 3549-3563.  PDF


Oscillatory activity in the cerebellar hemispheres of unrestrained rats (1998) Hartmann MJ, Bower JM (1998) Journal of Neurophysiology 80 (3): 1598-1604.   PDF


Applications of video mixing and digital overlay to neuroethology.(2000) Hartmann MJ, Assad C, Rasnow B, Bower JM Methods -- A Companion to Methods in Enzymology 21 (4): 385-391.


Applications of multimedia computers and video mixing to neuroethology (1997) Rasnow B, Assad C, Hartmann MJ, Bower JM Journal of Neuroscience Methods 76 (1): 83-91.


Conference Proceedings (Peer-Reviewed) 
              (for conference posters and abstracts click here)
                    (for journal papers click here)

Haptic cooperation between people, and between people and machines. (2006) Kyle B. Reed, Mitra J. Hartmann, James Patton, Peter M. Vishton, Marcia Grabowecky, and Michael Peshkin. Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Beijing.  PDF
Kinesthetic Interaction (2005)   Kyle B. Reed, Michael Peshkin, Mitra J. Hartmann, J. Edward Colgate, and James Patton. Proc. of the 9th Int. Conf. on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR '05), Chicago, IL, June, 2005.  PDF
Multifunctional whisker arrays for distance detection, terrain mapping, and object feature extraction (2005) Schultz AE, Solomon JH, Peshkin MA, Hartmann MJ. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Barcelona, Spain.   PDF


Conference Abstracts and Posters
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              (for journal papers click here)

Quist BW and Hartmann MJZ (2007) Millinewton force sensors inspired by mammalian whisker arrays. in ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. Seattle, WA.

Quist BW, Solomon JH, and Hartmann MJZ (2007) The two-dimensional  force/moment profile resulting from whisker/object contact. in Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA.

Hartmann MJZ, Crystal JA, and Towal RB (2007) A rat's-eye view of the whiskers. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA.

Kaloti AS, Jones LM, Keller A,  and Hartmann MJZ. (2007) State encoding of mechanical variables in the rat trigeminal ganglion.  Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA.

Lu H, Towal RB, Bower JM, and Hartmann MJZ (2007) Purkinje cell and granule cell layer responses to artificial whisking in lobule ix of the rat cerebellar cortex. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA.

Towal RB and Hartmann MJ  (2007) Velocity profiles during free air whisking: Implications for horizontal object localization. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA.

Kaloti AS and Hartmann MJ  (2007) A model of the encoding of mechanical variables by rat vibrissal trigeminal ganglion neurons.  Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting (COSYNE).  Salt Lake City, Utah.

Gopal V and Hartmann MJ (2007) "The Whole Rat Catalog” – relating form and function in the rat vibrissal array Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting (COSYNE).  Salt Lake City, Utah.

Abrams DA, Nicol TG, Zecker S, Hartmann MJ, and Kraus N (2007) Primary and non-primary cortical encoding of the speech envelope: implications for neural representation and perception in humans. Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) Annual Meeting,  Denver, CO.

Solomon JH,  Assad C, Wisse M, and Hartmann MJ (2006)  A cerebellar-inspired algorithm for balance of a bipedal robot. BMES Annual Fall Meeting, Chicago, IL

Quist BW and Hartmann MJ (2006) Characterization of the forces generated by rat vibrissae during collisions with objects Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Atlanta, Georgia

Kaloti A, and Hartmann MJ (2006) Role of Spinal Trigeminal Nucleus Interpolaris (SpVi) in the Processing of Vibrissal- Related Information Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Atlanta, Georgia

Towal RB, Gopal V, and Hartmann MJ (2006) The sensory volume of the rat vibrissal array during exploratory whisking. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Atlanta, Georgia

Towal RB, and Hartmann MJ (2006) Bilateral Symmetry of Vibrissal Movements During Object Contact Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Atlanta, Georgia

Gopal V, and Hartmann MJ (2006) The “Whole Rat Catalog”: a complete 3-dimensional model of the rat head and vibrissal array. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Atlanta, Georgia

Birdwell JA, and Hartmann MJ (2006) A biomechanical model of rat vibrissae that permits radial distance detection Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Atlanta, Georgia

Towal, RB and Hartmann, MJ. (2005) Trigeminal ganglion cell responses to large vibrissal deflections. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, San Diego, CA

Hartmann, MJ and Towal, RB.  (2005) Bilateral Asymmetries in Whisking Patterns of Freely Behaving Rats.  Society for Neuroscience Abstracts., San Diego, CA

Towal, RB and Hartmann, MJ. (2005) Out of Sync: Asymmetric Bilateral Whisking Patterns in Freely Behaving Rats,  CNS*05, Madison, Wisconsin. Received best poster award

Solomon JH,  Hartmann MJ (2004)  Object feature extraction with a hardware whisker array. Program No. 978.16. 2004 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, Online

Thajchayapong M, Hartmann MJ (2004) How do rat whiskers perform radial distance detection? Program No. 978.17. 2004 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2004. Online. 

Pan P, Lynch KM, Peshkin MA, Colgate JE, Hartmann MJ (2004)  Single-arm manipulation with kinematic constraints. Program No. 533.14. 2004 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience Online

Hartmann MJ and Assad C (2002)  Head and whisker movements during exploratory behavior in rats. Program No. 257.1.  Society for Neuroscience Abstracts CD-ROM.

Lu, H.,  Hartmann MJ, and Bower JM (2002) Spontaneous and evoked activity of correlated cerebellar Purkinje cells and granule cells: an in vivo study.   Program No. 360.9. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts CD-ROM.

Assad C, and Hartmann MJ (2002) Control of a simulated arm using a novel combination of cerebellar learning mechanisms. CNS*2002 (11th annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting). Monterey, CA.

Lewis MA, Etienne-Cummings R, Cohen AH, and Hartmann MJ (2000) Toward biomorphic control using custom aVLSI CPG chips. International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2000). San Francisco, CA.

Hartmann MJ and Bower JM (1998) Simultaneous oscillatory activity in cerebellar folium crus IIa and primary somatosensory cortex of awake and anesthetized rats. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. 24:667.

Hartmann MJ and Bower JM (1996) Cerebellar granule cell responses in the awake, freely-moving rat: the importance of tactile input. CNS*1996 (5th annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting). Boston, MA.

Hartmann MJ and Bower JM (1996) Computation in the granule cell layer of awake freely moving rats. Proceedings of the 3rd Joint Symposium on Neural Computation. Institute of Neural Computation, University of California, San Diego, and California Institute of Technology. 6:196:201.

Hartmann MJ and Bower JM (1996) Cerebellar granule cell activity correlates with the activity in primary somatosensory cortex in the awake, freely-moving rat. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. 22: 1200.

Hartmann MJ and Bower JM (1995) Cerebellar granule cell responses in the awake, freely-moving rat: the importance of tactile input. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. 21:1910.