Steven Fry
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The fly group at INI explores sensory-motor processing pathways in the fruit fly Drosophila. The research addresses visual and mechanosensory processing pathways relevant to flight control by applying novel approaches and measurement techniques. Visual guidance is explored under free-flight conditions using a wind tunnel equipped with virtual reality display techniques. This approach is complemented with experiments in tethered flying flies using MEMS force sensors and a high-speed vision system for kinematic analyses.
Similarly, the mechanosensory processsing pathways are explored using the two approaches. In both cases, transgenic flies will be used to explore the neural pathways underlying flight control.
Publications
2010
Graetzel, C F and Nelson, B J and Fry, S N Frequency response of lift control in Drosophila, Journal of the Royal Society. Interface, 7:(52) 1603-1616, 2010
2008
Fry, S. N. and Rohrseitz, N. and Straw, A. D. and Dickinson, M. H.
TrackFly: Virtual reality for a behavioral system analysis in free-flying fruit flies,
Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 171:(1) 110-117, 2008
Graetzel, C.F. and Fry, S.N. and Beyeler, F. and Sun, Y. and Nelson, B.J. Real-time Microforce Sensors and High Speed Vision System for Insect Flight Control Analysis, Experimental Robotics, 39: 451-460, 2008
Graetzel, C.F. and Medici, V. and Rohrseitz, N. and Nelson, B.J. and Fry, S.N.
The Cyborg Fly: A biorobotic platform to investigate dynamic coupling effects between a fruit fly and a robot,
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2008) 14-19, 2008
2006
Graetzel, C. F. and Fry, S.N. and Nelson, B.J. A 6000 Hz computer vision system for real-time wing beat analysis of Drosophila, Biorob 2006 278-283, 2006
2005
Fry, S. N. and Sayaman, R. and Dickinson, M. H. The aerodynamics of hovering flight in Drosophila, Journal of Experimental Biology, 208: 2303-2318, 2005
Fry, S.N. and Wehner, R. Look and turn: Landmark-based goal-navigation in honey bees, Journal of Experimental Biology, 208: 3945-3955, 2005
Sun, Y. and Graetzel, C.G. and Fry, S.N. and Nelson, B.J. A MEMS Micro Force Sensor for Drosophila Flight Characterization, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, Hong Kong SAR and Macau SAR, 2005
Sun, Y. and Potassek, D.P. and Bell, D.J. and Fry, S.N. and Nelson, B.J. Characterizing fruit fly flight behavior using a microforce sensor with a new comb drive configuration, IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 14: 4-11, 2005
Fry, S. N. , Resolving the mysteries of insect flight using 3D high-speed videography. In: Peter Salcher and Ernst Mach, a successful Teamwork, 2005
2003
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Fry, SN and Sayaman, R and Dickinson, MH Biomechanics of free flight control in Drosophila, Proceedings of the 29th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference and the 5th Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society 2003 387-388, 2003