Selected Publications
Publications
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Refereed Papers in Professional Journals
Grasso, F. W., & Atema, J. (2002). Integration of flow and chemical sensing for guidance of autonomous marine robots in turbulent flows. Journal of Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 1:1-20.
Pohlman, K., F.W. Grasso and T. Briethaupt (2001) Tracking wakes: the nocturnal predatory strategy of piscivorous catfish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98:7371-7374.
Grasso, F.W. (2001) Invertebrate-Inspired Sensory-Motor Systems and Autonomous, Olfactory-Guided Exploration. Biol. Bull. 200(2) 160-168.
Grasso, F.W. , T.R. Consi, D.C. Mountain and J. Atema (2000) Chemo-Orientation in Turbulence with a Biomimetic Robot Lobster. Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 30:115-131.
Hanna, J., F.W. Grasso and J. Atema (1999) Temporal Correlation Between Sensor Pairs in Different Plume Positions: A study of Concentration Information Available to the American Lobster Homarus americanus , During Chemotaxis. Bio. Bull. 197:249-250.
Mjos, K., F. W. Grasso and J. Atema (1999) Antennule Use by the American Lobster Homarus americanus , During Chemo-orientation in Three Turbulent Odor Plumes. Biol. Bull.197:250-251.
F.W. , T.R. Consi, D.C. Mountain, J.H. Dale and J. Atema(1997) Effectiveness of Continuous Bilateral Sampling for Robot Chemotaxis in a Turbulent Odor Plume: Implications for Lobster Chemotaxis. Biol. Bull.193:215-216
Beglane, P. F. and F. W. Grasso (1997) Far Field Chemo-Orientation in the American Lobster, Homarus americanus : Effects of Unilateral Ablation and Lesioning of the Lateral Antennules Bio. Bull.193:214-215
Dittmer, K., F.W. Grasso, and J. Atema (1996) Obstacles to Flow Produce Distinctive Patterns of Odor Dispersal on a Scale that could be Detected by Marine Animals. Bull. 191:313-314.
Grasso, F., T. Consi, D. Mountain, and J. Atema (1996) Behavior or Purely Chemotactic Robot Lobster Reveals Different Odor Plume Patterns in the Jet Region and the Patch Filed of a Turbulent Plume.Bio. Bull.191:312-313.
Dittmer, K. F., F.W. Grassoand J. Atema (1995) Effects of varying plume turbulence on temporal concentration signals available to orienting lobsters.Biol. Bull.182: 232-233.
Refereed Papers in Proceedings From Professional Meetings
Grasso, F.W., J. A. Basil, and J. Atema (1998) Toward the Convergence: Robot and Lobster Perspectives of Tracking Odors to their Source in the Turbulent Marine Environment.BioMimetic Robots Conference ISIC/CIRA/ISA \rquote 98, Sept 14-17, 1998, Gaithersberg, MD.
Grasso F. W., and P. M. DiLorenzo (1996) GUSSTO: A Neural Network Model of Gustatory Processing in the RAT NTS and PBN. In: Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research. James Bower Ed. pp. 321-326.
Grasso, F.W., T.R. Consi, D. Mountain, and J. Atema (1996) Locating Odor Sources in Turbulence with a Lobster Inspired Robot.Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior. Sept. 1996. Maes, Mataric, Meyer, Pollack and Wilson (Eds). pp104-113.
Reviews, Essays and Book Chapters
Grasso,F. W., & Basil, J.A. (2002) How lobsters, crayfishes, and crabs find important sources of odor: current perspectives and future directions. Current Opinion in Neurobiology.12:721-727.
Grasso, F.W. (2002) Flow and Chemo-sense for Robot and Lobster Guidance in Odor Source Tracking. In Neurotechnology. Joseph Ayers and Joel Davis (Eds). MIT Press.
Grasso, F.W. (2001) Locating Chemical Sources in Marine Environments: Information, Robot Design and Animal Adaptation to Environment. In Bio-Robots. Thomas Consi and Barabra Webb (Eds.).
Blazis, D. and F.W. Grasso(1999) Introduction to Invertebrate Sensory Information Processing, Biological Inspiration of Autonomous Robots. Bull. 200(2) 147-149.
Grasso, F. W. (1999) A Case Study of Marine Chemo-Orientation in Turbulence. in: Artificial Ethology. David MacFarland and Owen Holland (Eds.). Oxford University Press.