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D. Lung, S. Larson, A. Palyanov, S. Khayrulin, P. Gleeson, Z. Zimmer, R. Grosu, R. Hasani:
"A Simplified Cell Network for the Simulation of C. elegans´ Forward Crawling";
Poster: Workshop on Worm´s Neural Information Processing at the 31st Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Conference, 2017, Long Beach, CA, USA; 08.12.2017; in: "Proceedings of the Workshop on Worm´s Neural Information Processing at the 31st Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Conference, 2017", (2017), 5 S.

We simulate C. elegans´ forward crawling with a cell network composed of the
AVB interneuron pair, 18 B-type and 19 D-type motorneurons and 95 body muscles,
considering three key hypotheses; I. AVB interneurons get activated from their
upstream neurons, and excite B-type motor neurons. II. Simultaneously, a central
pattern generator (CPG) in the head, produces periodic stimuli for the B-type
motorneuron network. Input stimuli from the CPG is injected into the first dorsal
and ventral motor neurons (DB01 and VB01). These signals then propagate in a
coordinated manner through the rest of the B-type motorneurons. III. At the same
time, a proprioceptive feedback function is assumed amongst B-type motorneurons
that establishes synchronized traveling waves in the muscles. Simulation of the
cell network and the worm´s crawling is performed in the c302 and Sibernetic
platforms of the OpenWorm project. See a video demonstration here https:
//youtu.be/iyV7y8nFdDU.

http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/publik_265628.pdf