Dr Michael Mangan

Journal articles

• Zhu L, Mangan M & Webb B (2023) Neuromorphic sequence learning with an event camera on routes through vegetation. Science Robotics, 8(82).
• Haalck L, Mangan M, Wystrach A, Clement L, Webb B & Risse B (2023) CATER: Combined Animal Tracking & Environment Reconstruction.. Science Advances, 9(16).
• Mangan M, Floreano D, Yasui K, Trimmer BA, Gravish N, Hauert S, Webb B, Manoonpong P & Szczecinski NS (2023) A virtuous cycle between invertebrate and robotics research: perspective on a decade of Living Machines research. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics.
• Millward B, Maddock S & Mangan M (2022) CompoundRay, an open-source tool for high-speed and high-fidelity rendering of compound eyes. eLife, 11.
• Ozdemir A, Scerri M, Barron A, Philippides A, Mangan M, Vasilaki E & Manneschi L (2022) EchoVPR: Echo State Networks for Visual Place Recognition. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 1-1.
• Sun X, Yue S & Mangan M (2021) How the insect central complex could coordinate multimodal navigation. eLife, 10.
• Ozdemir A, Scerri M, Barron AB, Philippides A, Mangan M, Vasilaki E & Manneschi L (2021) EchoVPR: Echo State Networks for Visual Place Recognition. View this article in WRRO
• Özdemir A, Barron AB, Philippides A, Mangan M, Vasilaki E & Manneschi L (2021) EchoVPR: Echo State Networks for Visual Place Recognition.. CoRR, abs/2110.05572.
• Mangan M, Fountain M, Delgado A, Hemer S, Dowding C, Badiee A, Pearson S & Davis F (2020) The use of light spectrum blocking films to reduce populations of Drosophila suzukii Matsumura in fruit crops. Scientific Reports.
• Schwarz S, Mangan M, Webb B & Wystrach A (2020) Route-following ants respond to alterations of the view sequence. The Journal of Experimental Biology, 223(14). View this article in WRRO
• Sun X, Yue S & Mangan M (2020) A decentralised neural model explaining optimal integration of navigational strategies in insects. eLife, 9. View this article in WRRO
• Buehlmann C, Mangan M & Graham P (2020) Multimodal interactions in insect navigation. Animal Cognition. View this article in WRRO
• Haalck L, Mangan M, Webb B & Risse B (2020) Towards image-based animal tracking in natural environments using a freely moving camera. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 330. View this article in WRRO
• Kirk R, Cielniak G & Mangan M (2020) L*a*b*fruits : a rapid and robust outdoor fruit detection system combining bio-inspired features with one-stage deep learning networks. Sensors, 20(1). View this article in WRRO
• Stone T, Mangan M, Wystrach A & Webb B (2018) Rotation invariant visual processing for spatial memory in insects. Interface Focus, 8(4), 20180010-20180010. View this article in WRRO
• Risse B, Mangan M, Stürzl W & Webb B (2018) Software to convert terrestrial LiDAR scans of natural environments into photorealistic meshes. Environmental Modelling & Software, 99, 88-100.
• Schwarz S, Mangan M, Zeil J, Webb B & Wystrach A (2017) How Ants Use Vision When Homing Backward. Current Biology, 27(3), 401-407. View this article in WRRO
• Ardin PB, Mangan M & Webb B (2016) Ant homing ability is not diminished when traveling backwards. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 10(1). View this article in WRRO
• Ardin P, Peng F, Mangan M, Lagogiannis K & Webb B (2016) Using an Insect Mushroom Body Circuit to Encode Route Memory in Complex Natural Environments. PLoS Computational Biology, 12(2), e1004683-e1004683. View this article in WRRO
• Wystrach A, Mangan M & Webb B (2015) Optimal cue integration in ants. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282(1816).
• Ardin P, Mangan M, Wystrach A & Webb B (2015) How variation in head pitch could affect image matching algorithms for ant navigation. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 201(6), 585-597. View this article in WRRO
• Graham P & Mangan M (2015) Insect navigation: do ants live in the now?. Journal of Experimental Biology, 218(6), 819-823.
• Cheung A, Collett M, Collett TS, Dewar A, Dyer F, Graham P, Mangan M, Narendra A, Philippides A, Stürzl W , Webb B et al (2014) Still no convincing evidence for cognitive map use by honeybees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(42), E4396-E4397.
• Wystrach A, Mangan M, Philippides A & Graham P (2013) Snapshots in ants? New interpretations of paradigmatic experiments. Journal of Experimental Biology, 216(10), 1766-1770.
• Mangan M & Webb B (2012) Spontaneous formation of multiple routes in individual desert ants (Cataglyphis velox). Behavioral Ecology, 23(5), 944-954.
• Mangan M & Webb B (2009) Modelling place memory in crickets. Biological Cybernetics, 101(4), 307-323.
• Wessnitzer J, Haferlach T, Mangan M & Webb B (2008) Path Integration Using a Model of e-Vector Orientation Coding in the Insect Brain: Reply to Vickerstaff and Di Paolo. Adaptive Behavior, 16(4), 277-280.
• Vickerstaff RJ & Di Paolo EA (2008) Regarding Compass Response Functions For Modeling Path Integration: Comment on “Evolving a Neural Model of Insect Path Integration”. Adaptive Behavior, 16(4), 275-276.
• Wessnitzer J, Mangan M & Webb B (2008) Place memory in crickets. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 275(1637), 915-921.
• Haferlach T, Wessnitzer J, Mangan M & Webb B (2007) Evolving a Neural Model of Insect Path Integration. Adaptive Behavior, 15(3), 273-287.

Chapters

• Kirk R, Mangan M & Cielniak G (2021) Robust Counting of Soft Fruit Through Occlusions with Re-identification, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 211-222). Springer International Publishing
• Kirk R, Mangan M & Cielniak G (2021) Non-destructive Soft Fruit Mass and Volume Estimation for Phenotyping in Horticulture, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 223-233). Springer International Publishing
• Zhu L, Mangan M & Webb B (2020) Spatio-Temporal Memory for Navigation in a Mushroom Body Model, Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems (pp. 415-426). Springer International Publishing
• Vouloutsi V, Halloy J, Mura A, Mangan M, Lepora N, Prescott TJ & Verschure PFMJ (2018) Preface (pp. V-VII).
• (2016) Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems Springer International Publishing

Conference proceedings papers

• Sun X, Mangan M & Yue S (2018) An Analysis of a Ring Attractor Model for Cue Integration (pp 459-470) View this article in WRRO
• Risse B, Mangan M, Webb B & Del Pero L (2018) Visual tracking of small animals in cluttered natural environments using a freely moving camera. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (pp 2840-2849). Venice, Italy, 22 October 2017 - 29 October 2017. View this article in WRRO
• Billington A, Walton G, Whitbread J & Mangan M (2017) Using the Robot Operating System for Biomimetic Research (pp 515-521)
• Kodzhabashev A & Mangan M (2015) Route Following Without Scanning (pp 199-210)
• Mangan M, Stone T, Webb B & Ardin P (2014) Sky segmentation with ultraviolet images can be used for navigation. Robotics: Science and Systems X, 12 July 2014 - 16 July 2014.
• Philippides A, Dewar A, Wystrach A, Mangan M & Graham P (2013) How Active Vision Facilitates Familiarity-Based Homing (pp 427-430)
• Kirk R, Mangan M & Cielniak G () Feasibility Study of In-Field Phenotypic Trait Extraction for Robotic Soft-Fruit Operations. UKRAS20 Conference: “Robots into the real world” Proceedings
• Millward B, Maddock S & Mangan M () Towards Insect Inspired Visual Sensors for Robots. UKRAS20 Conference: “Robots into the real world” Proceedings View this article in WRRO

Preprints

• Han C, Basu D, Mangan M, Vasilaki E & Gilra A (2024) Dynamical-VAE-based Hindsight to Learn the Causal Dynamics of Factored-POMDPs, arXiv.
• Sun X, Mangan M, Yue S & Peng J (2024) I2Bot: an open-source tool for multi-modal and embodied simulation of insect navigation, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
• Millward B, Maddock S & Mangan M (2021) CompoundRay: An open-source tool for high-speed and high-fidelity rendering of compound eyes, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
• Gkanias E, Risse B, Mangan M & Webb B (2018) From skylight input to behavioural output: a computational model of the insect polarised light compass. View this article in WRRO
• Sun X, Yue S & Mangan M () How the insect central complex could coordinate multimodal navigation, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
• Zhu L, Mangan M & Webb B () Spatio-temporal Memory for Navigation in a Mushroom Body Model, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
• Sun X, Yue S & Mangan M () A Decentralised Neural Model Explaining Optimal Integration of Navigational Strategies in Insects. View this article in WRRO
• Mangan M, Milford M, Kim H, Leuteneggar S, Stone T, Webb B & Davison A () Place recognition with event-based cameras and a neural implementation of SeqSLAM.