
Peer-reviewed, Full-length Works
- Müller, R. & H.-U. Schnitzler (1999): Acoustic flow perception in
cf-bats: properties of the available
cues.
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 105(5): 2958-66
- Müller, R. & R. Kuc (2000): Foliage echoes: a probe into
the ecological acoustics of bat
echolocation.
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 108(3): 836-45
- Müller, R. & R. Kuc (2000): A parsimonious signal
representation of random echoes based on a biomimetic spike
code.
In: Proceedings of the ICSC Symposia on
Intelligent Systems and Applications, ICSC Academic Press,
Canada. ISBN 3-906454-24X pp. 915-21.
- Müller, R. & H.-U. Schnitzler (2000): Acoustic flow perception in
cf-bats: extraction of parameters.
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 108(3): 1298-1307
- Peremans, H., R. Müller, J. M. Carmena, &
J. C. T. Hallam (2000): A
biomimetic platform to study perception in cf-bats.
In: Proceedings of the SPIE Symposium on Sensor Fusion and
Decentralized Control in Robotic Systems
III. Boston.pp. 168-189.
- Müller, R. & H.-U. Schnitzler (2001): Computational assessment of an
acoustic flow hypothesis for cf-bats.
In:
Computational models of auditory function (S. Greenberg &
M. Slaney, eds.), vol. 312. IOS Press. ISBN 9051994575
pp. 141-50
- Müller, R. (2003): A computational theory for the
classification of natural biosonar targets based on a spike
code.
Network: Comput. Neural Syst. (2003) 14:
595-612
- Peremans, H. & R. Müller (2003): A comprehensive robotic model
for neural & acoustic signal processing in
bats.
In: Proceedings of The 1st International IEEE
EMBS Neural Engineering Conference pp. 458-461
- Streicher, A., R. Müller, J. Hallam, H. Peremans, &
R. Lerch (2004): Ultrasonic
transducers for matching the performance of natural sonar
systems.
In: Proceedings of the Joint Congress
CFA/DAGA pp. 1015-16.
- Streicher, A., R. Müller, H. Peremans, M. Kaltenbacher,
& R. Lerch (2004): Ferroelectrets: Ultrasonic
transducer for a biomimetic sonar system.
In:
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Ultrasonics
Symposium. pp. 1142-45.
- Clarke, C. T., L. Qiang, H. Peremans, & R. Müller
(2004): An FPGA Based
Biomimetic Implementation of neural signal processing in
bats.
In: Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics,
vol. 26.
- Leonard, G., J. A. Flint, & R. Müller (2004): On the directivity of the pinnae
of the rufous horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus rouxii).
In:
Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics 26(6), 29-37.
- Müller, R. (2004): A numerical study of the role
of the tragus in the big brown bat.
J. Acoust. Am. 116(6), 3701-12
- Müller, R. & J. C. T. Hallam (2004): Biomimetic smart antenna
shapes for ultrasonic sensors in robots.
In:
Proceedings of the 35th International Symposium on Robotics ISR
2004, 6 pages
- Müller, R. & J. C. T. Hallam (2004): From bat pinnae to sonar
antennae: augmented obliquely truncated horns as a novel
parametric shape model.
In: S. Schaal, A. Ijspeert,
A. Billard, S. Vijayakumar, J. C. T. Hallam, and J.-A. Meyer
(eds.): Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on
the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'04) MIT
Press. pp. 87-95.
- Peremans, H. & R. Müller (2004): The CIRCE biomimetic bat
head.
In: Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics,
vol. 26.
- Müller, R. & J. C. T. Hallam (2005): Knowledge mining for
biomimetic smart antenna shapes.
Robotics and
Autonomous Systems, 50, 131-45
- Müller, R., H. Lu, S. Zhang, & H. Peremans (2006):
A helical biosonar scanning
pattern in the Chinese Noctule, Nyctalus
plancyi.
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119(6),
4083-92
- Müller, R. & H. Peremans (2006): Biomimetic integration of
neural and acoustic signal processing.
In: M. Akay
(ed.): IEEE EMBS Book Series on Neural Engineering. Wiley/IEEE
Press, pp. 281-96
- Zhuang, Q. & R. Müller (2006): Noseleaf furrows in a horseshoe
bat act as resonance cavities shaping the biosonar beam.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97(21), 218701 - 4 (featured on journal cover).
- R. Müller & R. Kuc (2007): Biosonar-Inspired Technology:
Goals, Challenges, and Insights.
Bioinsp. Biomim. 2, S146-61 (invited contribution).
- Zhuang, Q. & R. Müller (2007): Numerical study of the effect
of the noseleaf on biosonar beamforming in a horseshoe bat.
Phys. Rev. E 76(5), 051902-1-11.
Technical Report
Conference Presentations
- Acoustic flow field
information and obstacle avoidance in CF-bats. In: 25th
Göttingen Neurobiology Report, 1997
- Acoustic flow in echo
amplitudes and spectra: a viable concept for obstacle avoidance
in CF-bats? Presented at: 133rd ASA Meeting, State College,
Pennsylvania, USA, June 16-20, 1997
- Estimating acoustic
flow parameters for multiple echoes within a biologically
motivated signal processing framework. Presented at: 134th
ASA Meeting, San Diego, California, USA, December 1-5, 1997
- Demodulation and the
evaluation of acoustic flow. In: 26th Göttingen
Neurobiology Report, 1998
- Feasibility Issues in
Acoustic Flow Perception. Presented at: Animal Sonar
Systems, 1998
- Acoustic flow field
perception in cf-bats - a feasibility study. Presented at:
Tübinger Wahrnehmungskonferenz, 1998
- Biosonar in a textured
world. Presented at: 137th ASA Meeting, Berlin, Germany, March
14-19, 1999
- Non-gaussian randomness
outside and inside the bat' s brain. Presented at: 138th ASA
Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, USA, November 1-5, 1999
- Biomimetic Sonar: Why,
How & What? Presented at: Workshop on biomimetic
Ultrasound, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 21-22, 2000
- Biomimetic spike
encoding of natural stimulus ensembles. Presented at:
Workshop on biomimetic Ultrasound, Edinburgh, Scotland, July
21-22, 2000
- A parsimonious signal
representation of random echoes based on a biomimetic spike
code. In: Proceedings of the ICSC Symposia on Intelligent
Systems and Applications. ICSC Academic Press, Canada. ISBN
3-906454-24-X. pp. 91521
- A biomimetic platform to
study perception in bats. In: Proceedings of the SPIE
Symposium on Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Robotic
Systems III, Proc. of SPIE (G. T. McKee & P. S. Schenker, eds.),
vol. 4196. Boston. pp. 16889
- A Synthetic
Biosonar-Observer. Presented at: 28th Göttingen
Neurobiology Conference, June 6-10, 2001
-
Biosonar in the bat's world. Presented at: Telluride
Workshop on Neuromorphic Engineering, Telluride, Colorado,
USA, July 1-21, 2001.
- Fast Signals and a Slow
Brain: Ultrasonic Waveforms seen through a Spike Code.
Presented at: 4. Tübinger Wahrnehmungskonferenz, March 2-4,
2001
- Computational assessment
of an acoustic flow hypothesis for cf-bats. In:
Computational models of auditory function (S. Greenberg &
M. Slaney, eds.), vol. 312. IOS Press. ISBN
9051994575. pp. 14150
- The stimulus ensemble of
biosonar. Presented at: Gordon Research Conferenc "Sensory
coding and the natural environment", South Hadley, MA, USA
- A general spike coding
model for natural echoes. Presented at: 144th ASA
Meeting/First Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics, Cancun,
Mexico, December 2-6, 2002
- Chiroptera-Inspired
Robotic Cephaloid (CIRCE): A next generation biomimetic sonar
head. Presented at: 144th ASA Meeting/First
Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics, Cancun, Mexico,
December 2-6, 2002
- Predicting the acoustic
properties of biosonar antenna shapes. In: 2nd Workshop on
Biomimetic Ultrasound, Valencia, Spain, 22 -24 September,
2003
- Thoughts on the Neuro-IT
roadmap. Presented at: Workshop Towards a Roadmap for
Successful Neuro-IT Research in Europe, hosted by the European
Commission, Brussels, Belgium, December 2003
- Life-like antenna design
for the CIRCE system. In: NeuroIT Workshop, Brussels, Belgium,
December 2, 2003.
- A comprehensive robotic
model for neural & acoustic signal processing in
bats.In: 1st International IEEE EMBS Neural Engineering
Conference pp. 458-461
- Understanding ultrasonic
perception - simulation of the bat sonar system. Presented
at: CAD-FEM Users´ Meeting 2003, Potsdam, Germany, November
12-14, 2003
- Broadband-In-Air
Ultrasonic Transducers for an artificial bat head. Presented
at: DAGA 2003, Aachen, Germany, March 18-20, 2003 (in
German)
- Broadband ultrasonic
transducer for an artificial bat head. In: Proceedings of
the 2003 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium,
vol. 2. IEEE. pp. 13647
- An fpga based biomimetic
implementation of acoustic signal processing in bats. In:
Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, vol. 26. 7 pages
- On the directivity of the
pinnae of the rufous horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus rouxii).
Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics 26(6), 29-37
- How bats' ears probe
space: a numerical analysis of pinna shapes. Presented at:
75th Anniversary Meeting (147th Meeting) of the Acoustical
Society of America, New York City, New York, 24-28 May,
2004
- A numerical analysis of
the acoustic computations in bat biosonar. Presented at:
2004 International Workshop on Nature Inspired Computation and
Applications (IWNICA'2004), Hefei, China, October 25-29, 2004
- Biomimetic smart antenna
shapes for ultrasonic sensors in robots. In: Proceedings of
the 35th International Symposium on Robotics ISR 2004. 6
pages, 2004
- From bat pinnae to sonar
antennae: Augmented obliquely truncated horns as a novel
parametric shape model. Presented at: Eighth International
Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Los Angeles,
CA, USA, July 13-17, 2004
- How bats' ears probe
space: a numerical analysis of pinna shapes.
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 115(5), 2517, Presented at: 147th Meeting of
the Acoustical Society of America, New York City, New
York, May 24-28, 2004
- Predicting the acoustic
properties of bat ears from micro-ct measurements. Presented
at: 13th European Microscopy Congress (EMC 2004), Satellite
Workshop on Non-Invasive 3D Microscopy, Antwerp, Belgium, August
22 - 27, 2004
- The CIRCE biomimetic
bat head. In: Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics,
vol. 26. 8 pages (2004)
- The CIRCE- project:
Progress report for year 2. Presented at: NeuroIT
Workshop. Bonn, June 21-23, 2004
- Ultrasonic transducers
for matching the performance of natural sonar systems.
Presented at: Joint Congress CFA/DAGA 2004, Strasbourg, France,
March 22-25, 2004
- Ferroelectrets:
Ultrasonic transducer for a biomimetic sonar system.
Presented at: 2004 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, Montreal, Canada
August 23-27, 2004
- An optimized toolchain
for predicting directivity patterns from digital representations
of biological shapes. Presented at: 150th Meeting of the
Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October
17-21, 2005
- From bat ears to sound
beams. Short course given at CILIA Project Workshop, Hyères,
France, March 20-22, 2006
- Biosonar-inspired design
- past, present, future. Keynote presented at: Biomimetics
Symposium, The Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta,
USA, 10-12 May, 2006
- Numerical insights into
the mechanisms of biosonar beamforming.
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119(5), 3316; Invited talk presented at:
151st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Providence,
USA, 5-9 June, 2006
- Frequency-swept
directivity lobes - an emerging functional principle of
biosonar beamforming.
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 122(5), 2946; presented at:
154th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans,
USA, 27 November - 1 December 2007
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