Flight control of tethered honeybees using neural electrical stimulation
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Bao, Li; Zheng, Nenggan; Zhao, Huixia; Hao, Yaoyao; Zheng, Huoqing; Hu, Fuliang; Zheng, Xiaoxiang
- Source
- 2011 5th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering Neural Engineering (NER), 2011 5th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on. :558-561 Apr, 2011
- Subject
- Bioengineering
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Signal Processing and Analysis
Robotics and Control Systems
General Topics for Engineers
Insects
Time factors
Stimulated emission
Muscles
Optical pulses
Electrodes
Educational institutions
- Language
- ISSN
- 1948-3546
1948-3554
This paper presents an insect-machine interface for controlling the flight behavior of tethered honeybees. Flight initiation and cessation can be reproducibly generated using electrical pulses between two wire electrodes implanted into the honeybee's brain. Experiments are conducted to compare the effect of different stimulus patterns on the honeybee's behavior by parameters including success rate, response time and flight duration. The preliminary results enable us to carry out further research works on the control of complex flight behaviors or the neural mechanism of insect flight.