Publications

Selected publications

Accurate neuroprosthetic control through latent state transition training

Andres Agudelo-Toro, Jonathan A. Michaels, Wei-an Sheng, Hansjörg Scherberger. BioRxiv. 2023. doi

Combined finger movement population patterns are not composed by individual finger neural responses

Wei-An Sheng, Andres Agudelo-Toro, Benjamin Dann, Hansjörg Scherberger. In preparation. 2023.

A goal-driven modular neural network predicts parietofrontal neural dynamics during grasping

J. A. Michaels, S. Schaffelhofer, A. Agudelo-Toro, H. Scherberger.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020. doi

Decoding a wide range of hand configurations from macaque motor, premotor, and parietal cortices

S Schaffelhofer, A Agudelo-Toro, H Scherberger. Journal of Neuroscience, 35 (3) 1068-1081. 21 January 2015. doi pdf

Chronaxie measurements in patterned neuronal cultures from rat hippocampus

Stern S*, Agudelo-Toro A*, Rotem A, Moses E, Neef A. PLoS ONE 10(7): e0132577. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132577, 2015. doi (* equal contribution)

Solving the orientation specific constraints in transcranial magnetic stimulation by rotating fields

Assaf Rotem, Andreas Neef, Nicole E. Neef, Andres Agudelo-Toro, David Rakhmilevitch, Walter Paulus, and Elisha Moses. PLoS ONE, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0086794, 2014. doi

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Computationally efficient simulation of electrical activity at cell membranes interacting with self-generated and externally imposed electric fields

A. Agudelo-Toro, A. Neef. J. Neural Eng. 10 026019, 2013. doi

Transition management for the smooth flight of a small autonomous helicopter

A. Agudelo-Toro, C. M. Velez.  Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems. Springer. Vol. 58, No. 1, pp 69-94, 2010. doi

Control and parameter estimation of a mini-helicopter robot using rapid prototyping tools

Carlos Mario Vélez, Andres Agudelo. WSEAS Transactions On Systems. v.5, n.9, p.2250 - 2256, 2006. pdf

On the media

Grasping an object: Model describes complete movement planning in the brain

ScienceDaily.  07.12.2020. pdf link

Göttinger Forscher entwickeln Modell für Neuroprothesen. Göttinger Tageblatt, 10.12.2020 pdf

Vom Sehen bis zur Handbewegung Neuronales Modell des Greifens entwickelt. wissenschaft.de, 08.12.2020 pdf link

DPZ erfolgreich bei der vierten Nacht des Wissens

DPZ aktuell. 01.02.2019. pdf

Andres Agudelo Toro, entre robots y macacos

Revista Universidad EAFIT. 01.01.2016. pdf link

Entre chimpancés y robots, paisa busca crear mano artificial virtual. El Tiempo. 15.03.2016. pdf link

Neue Abteilung am Deutschen Primatenzentrum Göttingen. Göttinger Tageblatt. 09.01.2014. pdf link

Neuronen sprechen zwei Sprachen. MPIDS: Schnelle Software aus Göttingen ermöglicht eine realistische Simulation

ExtraTip Göttingen. 02.06.2013. pdf

Bilingual Neurons: Nerve cells in the brain speak two „languages“. Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization Press. 27.05.2013. pdf link

„Es ist, als sprächen sie zwei Sprachen“ Simulationssoftware: Kommunikationswege im Gehirn

Göttinger Tageblatt. 29.05.2013. pdf  link

Theses

Numerical Simulations on the Biophysical Foundations of the Neuronal Extracellular Space. PhD Thesis, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2013. pdf urn

Trajectory Smoothing and Transition Management for a Small Autonomous Helicopter. Master's Thesis, Universidad EAFIT, 2008. pdf

Modelo de contexto para realidad aumentada. Bachelor's Thesis, Universidad EAFIT, 2004. pdf

Other papers, talks, and posters

Paolo Viviani, Ilaria Gesmundo, Elios Ghinato, Andres Agudelo-Toro, Chiara Vercellino, Giacomo Vitali, Letizia Bergamasco, Alberto Scionti, Marco Ghislieri, Valentina Agostini, Olivier Terzo, Hansjörg Scherberger. Deep Learning for Real-Time Neural Decoding of Grasp. Conference paper. European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Applied Data Science Track. Turin, Italy. September 18-22, 2023. link

Andres Agudelo-Toro, Jonathan Michaels, Wei-An Sheng, Hansjörg Scherberger. Accurate neuroprosthetic control via neural manifold shaping. Research talk. BCI Meeting 2023. Brussels, Belgium. June 8, 2023. link

Andres Agudelo-Toro, James Goodman, Jonathan Michaels, Wei-An Sheng, Hansjörg Scherberger. Machine learning for a hand neuroprosthesisTalk. MIRMI. Munich, Germany. March 10, 2023.

James Goodman, Andres Agudelo-Toro, Hansjörg Scherberger.  BCI task and setup progress update II. Talk. B-CRATOS Large Consortium Meeting. Pisa, Italy. February 22, 2023.

Andres Agudelo-Toro, Jonathan Michaels, Wei-An Sheng, Hansjörg Scherberger. BCI control through progressive training of manifold latents (ProTML). Talk. Be.Neuro Lab. London, UK (Online). January 27, 2023.

Andres Agudelo-Toro, James Goodman, Hansjörg Scherberger. Machine learning for a hand neuroprosthesis. Talk. B-CRATOS Webinar 5: Machine Learning – Current Challenges and Opportunities for Neuroprosthetics. Online. November 22, 2023.

Andres Agudelo-Toro, Jonathan Michaels, Wei-An Sheng, Hansjörg Scherberger. An intention-based strategy for grasping prosthesis. Blitz talk and poster. The Society for the Neural Control of Movement Annual Meeting. Dublin, Ireland. July 28, 2022. link

James Goodman, Andres Agudelo-Toro, Hansjörg Scherberger.  BCI task and setup progress update I. Talk. B-CRATOS Large Consortium Meeting. Uppsala, Sweeden. June 8, 2022.

Andres Agudelo-Toro, Jonathan Michaels, Wei-An Sheng, Hansjörg Scherberger. Intention is all you need (to train a high-accuracy grasping iBCI). Talk. 3rd BCI-Unconference. Online. January 27, 2022. link

Andres Agudelo-Toro, Hansjörg Scherberger. Data Sharing: Monkey multi-electrode array recordings and Neo. Talk. 5th NFDINeuro Community Workshop: Integrating the Neuroscience Community. Online. July 13-14, 2021.

Hansjörg Scherberger, Dennis Segebarth, Michael Denker, Andres Agudelo-Toro, Thomas Wachtler. Problems, processes and tools in neurophysiology, behavioral neuroscience and modeling. Talk. 5th NFDINeuro Community Workshop: Integrating the Neuroscience Community.  Online. July 13-14, 2021.

Andres Agudelo-Toro, Jonathan Michaels, Wei-An Sheng, Andrej Filippow, Hansjörg Scherberger. Developing a Grasping BCI for Macaques: Lessons Learned. Poster. FENS-SfN Summer School 2019: Brain reading and writing: new perspectives of neurotechnology. Bertinoro, Italy, June 2-8, 2019.

Andres Agudelo-Toro, Jonathan Michaels, Wei-An Sheng, Andrej Filippow, Hansjörg Scherberger. Developing a Grasping BCI for Macaques: Lessons Learned. Poster. Primate Neurobiology Meeting. Göttingen, Germany. March 6-8, 2019.

Wei-An Sheng, Andres Agudelo-Toro, Hans Scherberger. Representation of individual and combined finger movements in the macaque grasping circuit. Poster. Bernstein Conference. Berlin, Germany. September 26-28, 2018.

Andres Agudelo-Toro, Hansjörg Scherberger. A signature of oscillatory dynamics in the brain grasping circuit. Poster. Bernstein Conference. Berlin, Germany. September 26-28, 2018.

Wei-An Sheng, Andres Agudelo-Toro, and Hans Scherberger. Representation of individual finger movements in the macaque grasping circuit. Poster. Primate Neurobiology Meeting. Tübingen, Germany. March 13-14, 2018.

Jonathan A Michaels, Stefan Schaffelhofer, Andres Agudelo-Toro, Hansjorg Scherberger. A modular neural network model of the primate grasping circuit. Poster II-98. Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne). Denver, USA. March 1-4, 2018.

Jonathan Michaels, Stefan Schaffelhofer, Andres Agudelo-Toro, Hansjörg Scherberger. A modular neural network model of the primate grasping circuit. Nanosymposium presentation. Session 549 - Visually-Guided Reach and Grasp. SfN Conference. Washington, USA. November 14, 2017.

Benjamin Dann, Jonathan Michaels, Andres Agudelo-Toro, Hansjörg Scherberger. Three categorical subspaces explain population dynamics in the fronto-parietal grasping network. Nanosymposium presentation. Session 549 - Visually-Guided Reach and Grasp. SfN Conference. Washington, USA. November 14, 2017.

Jonathan Michaels, Stefan Schaffelhofer, Andres Agudelo-Toro, Hansjörg Scherberger. A modular neural network model of the primate grasping circuit. Poster 1-G-135. Theoretical & Computational Motor Control. 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement. Dublin, Ireland, May 2-5, 2017.

Wei-An Sheng, Andres Agudelo-Toro, Hansjörg Scherberger. Representation of individual finger movements on the macaque grasping circuit. Poster 1-B-39. Fundamentals of Motor Control. 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement. Dublin, Ireland, May 2-5, 2017.

A Agudelo-Toro, J A Michaels, W Sheng, A Filippow, H Scherberger. Continuous decoding of hand grips with a high dimensional brain-computer interface. Poster. Primate Neurobiology Meeting. Göttingen, Germany. March 6-8, 2017.

W. Sheng., A. Agudelo-Toro, H. Scherberger. Representation of individual finger movements on the macaque grasping circuit. Poster. Primate Neurobiology Meeting. Göttingen, Germany. March 6-8, 2017.

J A Michaels, B Dann, R W Intveld, A Agudelo-Toro, Hansjoerg Scherberger. A recurrent neural network model of the visuomotor grasp generation circuit. Nanosymposium talk. Session 669 - Cortical Circuits for Grasping. SfN Conference, San Diego, USA, November 16, 2016.

Andres Agudelo-Toro, Wei-An Sheng, Jonathan A Michaels, Hansjoerg Scherberger. Continuous decoding of power and precision grips with a high dimensional brain computer interface.  Nanosymposium talk. Session 669 - Cortical Circuits for Grasping. SfN Conference, San Diego, USA, November 16, 2016.

Wei-An Sheng, Andres Agudelo-Toro, Hansjoerg Scherberger. Representation of finger movements from macaque area AIP, F5 and M1. Session 624 - Finger Movements: Physiology. Poster. SfN Conference, San Diego, USA, November 16, 2016.

A. Agudelo-Toro, W. Sheng, H. Scherberger. A mixed-reality environment for the study of hand and finger movements and the development of BMIs. Poster. Primate Neurobiology Conference. Tübingen. March 15-16, 2016.

Wei-An Sheng, Andres Agudelo-Toro, Hansjoerg Scherberger. Real-time decoding of individual and combined finger movements from macaque area AIP, F5, and M1. Poster. SfN Conference, Chicago, USA, 2015. pdf

Andres Agudelo-Toro, Stefan Schaffelhofer, Hansjörg Scherberger. Accurate representation of primate arm and finger positions by a robotic arm. Poster. NeuroEngineering the Brain Workshop, Munich, December 2, 2013.

Andreas Neef, Andres Agudelo-Toro. Fast and exact 4D simulation membrane currents interacting with self-generated and externally imposed electric fields. Poster#: 313.04. SfN Conference, San Diego, USA, November 11, 2013.

Andres Agudelo-Toro, Andreas Neef. A Tool for the Simulation of the Electrical Activity of Realistic Neuron Morphologies in a Conductive Extracellular Space.  Seminar talk S4-6. Proceedings of the 10th Göttingen meeting of the German Neuroscience Society. Göttingen 2013. proc

Andreas Neef, Andres Agudelo-Toro, 3D-Simulation of Electrical Activity at Cell Membranes, Interacting with Self-Generated and External Electric Fields. Poster. Biophysical Society 57th Annual Meeting: February 2-6, 2013. Abstract published in: Biophysical Journal, Volume 104, Issue 2, Supplement 1, 29 January 2013, Page 164a, ISSN 0006-3495. doi

Agudelo Toro A and Neef A (2011). A Model and Numerical Tool to Simulate the Neuronal Extracellular Space. Front. Comput. Neurosci. Conference Abstract: BC11 : Computational Neuroscience & Neurotechnology Bernstein Conference & Neurex Annual Meeting 2011. doi

Agudelo-Toro A and Neef A (2009). Numerical Simulation of Neurite Stimulation by Finite and Homogeneous Electric Sources. Front. Comput. Neurosci. Conference Abstract: Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience. doi

Carlos Mario Vélez, Andres Agudelo, Juan Esteban Martínez. Desarrollo y prueba de un vehículo aéreo no tripulado autónomo – Colibrí. VII Congreso de la Asociación Colombiana de Automática (ACA), ISBN 9789584408051, Cali, 21 al 23 de marzo, 2007.

Jairo Miguel Vergara, Andres Agudelo, Carlos Mario Vélez. Diseño e implementación del sistema de comunicaciones basado en CAN para la aviónica en un vehículo aéreo autónomo no tripulado. VII Congreso de la Asociación Colombiana de Automática (ACA), ISBN 9789584408051, Cali, 21 al 23 de marzo, 2007.

Jairo Miguel Vergara, Andres Agudelo. Diseño e implementación del sistema de comunicaciones basado en CAN para la aviónica en un vehículo aéreo autónomo no tripulado. Revista Ingenerías, Universidad de Medellin. v.6, n.11, p.209 - 221, 2007. link

Carlos Mario Vélez, Andres Agudelo, Jorge Álvarez. Modeling, Simulation and Rapid Prototyping of an Unmanned Mini-Helicopter. In: AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference and Exhibit, AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference and Exhibit Conference Proceedings (Online). American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. Keystone, Colorado, USA. 2006. doi

Carlos M. Vélez S., Andres Agudelo. Multirate control of an unmanned aerial vehicle. WSEAS Transactions on Circuits and Systems. v.4, n. 11, p.1628-1634, Nov. 2005.

Carlos Mario Vélez, Andres Agudelo. Simulation and Multirate Control of a Mini-Helicopter Robot. In: 5th WSEAS International Conference on Wavelet Analysis and Multirate Systems (WAMUS 2005), 2005, Sofía. Proceedings of 5th WAMUS. Atenas: WSEAS, 2005. v.1. p.1 – 2.

Andres Agudelo Toro. Modelo de Contexto Para Realidad Aumentada. Revista Universidad EAFIT. July 2005. pdf

Andres Agudelo, Lina Escobar, Juliana Restrepo, Andres Quiroz, Helmuth Trefftz. A Collaborative Tool for Synchronous Distance Education. Proceedings of the 7th IASTED International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education, pp 438-443, August 16-18, 2004, Kauai, Hawaii, USA. ACTA Press 2004, ISBN 0-88986-422-5.

C. D. Correa, A. Agudelo, A. M. Krebs, I. Marsic, J. Hou, A. Morde, and S. K. Ganapathy. The Parallel Worlds System for Collaboration among Virtual and Augmented Reality Users. Demo paper at the IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR'04) Arlington, VA, November 2 - 5, 2004.

Andres Agudelo, Lina Escobar, Juliana Restrepo, Claudia Zea and Helmuth Trefftz. Telepresence for Distance Education: Lessons Learned. Proceedings of The First IADAT International Conference on Education, IADATe2004. Bilbao, Spain. Jul. 7-9 2004.

S. K. Ganapathy, A. Morde and A. Agudelo. Tele-Collaboration in Parallel Worlds. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMM Workshop on Experiential Telepresence. Berkeley, CA, Nov. 7 2003.