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Decentralized control mechanism underlying interlimb coordination of millipedes.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Legged animals exhibit adaptive and resilient locomotion through interlimb coordination. The long-term goal of this study is to clarify the relationship between the number of legs and the inherent decentralized control mechanism for interlimb coordin...

Towards autonomous locomotion: CPG-based control of smooth 3D slithering gait transition of a snake-like robot.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Snake-like robots with 3D locomotion ability have significant advantages of adaptive travelling in diverse complex terrain over traditional legged or wheeled mobile robots. Despite numerous developed gaits, these snake-like robots suffer from unsmoot...

An improved chaotic fruit fly optimization based on a mutation strategy for simultaneous feature selection and parameter optimization for SVM and its applications.

PloS one
This paper proposes a new support vector machine (SVM) optimization scheme based on an improved chaotic fly optimization algorithm (FOA) with a mutation strategy to simultaneously perform parameter setting turning for the SVM and feature selection. I...

An aerodynamic model for insect flapping wings in forward flight.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
This paper proposes a semi-empirical quasi-steady aerodynamic model of a flapping wing in forward flight. A total of 147 individual cases, which consisted of advance ratios J of 0 (hovering), 0.125, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1 and  ∞, and angles of attack α o...

Microbiome Tools for Forensic Science.

Trends in biotechnology
Microbes are present at every crime scene and have been used as physical evidence for over a century. Advances in DNA sequencing and computational approaches have led to recent breakthroughs in the use of microbiome approaches for forensic science, p...

A bio-inspired electrocommunication system for small underwater robots.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Weakly electric fishes (Gymnotid and Mormyrid) use an electric field to communicate efficiently (termed electrocommunication) in the turbid waters of confined spaces where other communication modalities fail. Inspired by this biological phenomenon, w...

Mantisbot is a robotic model of visually guided motion in the praying mantis.

Arthropod structure & development
Insects use highly distributed nervous systems to process exteroception from head sensors, compare that information with state-based goals, and direct posture or locomotion toward those goals. To study how descending commands from brain centers produ...

An artificial intelligence approach fit for tRNA gene studies in the era of big sequence data.

Genes & genetic systems
Unsupervised data mining capable of extracting a wide range of knowledge from big data without prior knowledge or particular models is a timely application in the era of big sequence data accumulation in genome research. By handling oligonucleotide c...

Toward a systematic exploration of nano-bio interactions.

Toxicology and applied pharmacology
Many studies of nanomaterials make non-systematic alterations of nanoparticle physicochemical properties. Given the immense size of the property space for nanomaterials, such approaches are not very useful in elucidating fundamental relationships bet...

Mapping brain structure and function: cellular resolution, global perspective.

Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology
A comprehensive understanding of the brain requires analysis, although from a global perspective, with cellular, and even subcellular, resolution. An important step towards this goal involves the establishment of three-dimensional high-resolution bra...