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Remote radio control of insect flight

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, January 2009
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (82nd percentile)

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Title
Remote radio control of insect flight
Published in
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, January 2009
DOI 10.3389/neuro.07.024.2009
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Authors

Hirotaka Sato

Abstract

We demonstrated the remote control of insects in free flight via an implantable radio-equipped miniature neural stimulating system. The pronotum mounted system consisted of neural stimulators, muscular stimulators, a radio transceiver-equipped microcontroller and a microbattery. Flight initiation, cessation and elevation control were accomplished through neural stimulus of the brain which elicited, suppressed or modulated wing oscillation. Turns were triggered through the direct muscular stimulus of either of the basalar muscles. We characterized the response times, success rates, and free-flight trajectories elicited by our neural control systems in remotely controlled beetles. We believe this type of technology will open the door to in-flight perturbation and recording of insect flight responses.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 5 4%
Germany 3 2%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Korea, Republic of 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Finland 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 123 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 31 22%
Researcher 25 18%
Student > Master 14 10%
Professor 12 9%
Student > Bachelor 9 7%
Other 26 19%
Unknown 21 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 42 30%
Engineering 27 20%
Physics and Astronomy 9 7%
Neuroscience 9 7%
Computer Science 7 5%
Other 20 14%
Unknown 24 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 August 2022.
All research outputs
#1,672,652
of 24,503,376 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
#92
of 895 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,921
of 178,131 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
#4
of 17 outputs
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