Bioinspired Robots In article number 2206336, Qinyan Zhou, Jian Xu, and Hongbin Fang pioneer a neurobiologically inspired control architecture for earthworm-like robotic in-pipe locomotion. The distributed oscillators serve as mapping between earthworm neural oscillations segment deformations, the collective dynamics of oscillator network is exploited to achieve complex gait patterns better loc...

With the marriage of biomimetics and robotics, there has been a new revolution in structure design and selection of gaits of robot, and thus the field of robotic application was broadly enlarged. Crawling robot as one type of biological inspired robot has been studied in the last forty years (Hirose, 1993). The main characteristics of the crawling robot is that it has low gravity center, narrow...

The behavior of a robot is emerged from the interaction between body, control, and environmental dynamics. The research group B–3 aims to design body and control dynamics for emerging adaptive locomotion. We investigate three types of locomotion, biped, quadruped, and snake-like and developed robots. We also discuss on the lower control architecture for realizing reactive adaptive locomotion.

Quantifying muscle activity during locomotion in water is an emerging area of research. This article discusses the methods for quantifying muscle activity and summarizes key research findings of muscle activity during locomotion in water. The article is focused on comparing muscle activity during locomotion in water and on dry land.

One goal of the locomotion is to move the body in the space at the most economical way possible. However, little is known about the mechanical and energetic aspects of locomotion that are affected by low back pain. And in case of occurring some damage, little is known about how the mechanical and energetic characteristics of the locomotion are manifested in functional activities, especially wit...

For legged locomotion, animals and humans rely more on decentralized feedback control than on the central control approach common in humanoid robotics. We present evidence that the decentralization does not hamper fidelity and may present an alternative approach to robust locomotion of legged robots from prosthesis to humanoids. Keywords-locomotion, decentralized control, bioinspiration

IT HAS BEEN POSTULATED THAT A NUMBER OF THE CENTRAL EFFECTS OF ETHANOL ARE MEDIATED VIA ETHANOL METABOLITES: acetaldehyde and acetate. Ethanol is known to produce a large variety of behavioral actions such anxiolysis, narcosis, and modulation of locomotion. Acetaldehyde contributes to some of those effects although the contribution of acetate is less known. In the present studies, rats and mice...

Indoor navigation has to deal with more issues as compared to outdoor navigation. Those issues include but are not limited to; need more level of detail to process enclosing area around navigating subject or object, consideration of the context of navigation (about locomotion type and its operating environment), and dealing with unconstrained indoor space for accurate results. Because of these ...

Background: Individuals strive after goals through regulatory modes of assessment and locomotion. The independent inter-relationship between these two modes implies four profiles: assessor (i.e. high in assessment/low in locomotion), low regulator (i.e. low assessment/low locomotion), high regulator (i.e. high assessment/high locomotion), and locomotor (i.e. low assessment/high locomotion). We ...