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Slithering towards autonomy: a self-contained soft robotic snake platform with integrated curvature sensing.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Soft robotic snakes promise significant advantages in achieving traveling curvature waves with a reduced number of active segments as well as allowing for safe and adaptive interaction with the environment and human users. However, current soft robot...

Minimal feedback to a rhythm generator improves the robustness to slope variations of a compass biped.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
In recent years there has been a growing interest in the field of dynamic walking and bio-inspired robots. However, while walking and running on a flat surface have been studied extensively, walking dynamically over terrains with varying slope remain...

Controlling legs for locomotion-insights from robotics and neurobiology.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Walking is the most common terrestrial form of locomotion in animals. Its great versatility and flexibility has led to many attempts at building walking machines with similar capabilities. The control of walking is an active research area both in neu...

Robot-Assisted Training Early After Cardiac Surgery.

Journal of cardiac surgery
BACKGROUND: To assess feasibility and safety of a robot-assisted gait therapy with the LokomatĀ® system in patients early after open heart surgery.

Variable Cadence Walking and Ground Adaptive Standing With a Powered Ankle Prosthesis.

IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
This paper describes a control approach that provides walking and standing functionality for a powered ankle prosthesis, and demonstrates the efficacy of the approach in experiments with a unilateral transtibial amputee subject. Both controllers inco...

A network model comprising 4 segmental, interconnected ganglia, and its application to simulate multi-legged locomotion in crustaceans.

Journal of computational neuroscience
Inter-segmental coordination is crucial for the locomotion of animals. Arthropods show high variability of leg numbers, from 6 in insects up to 750 legs in millipedes. Despite this fact, the anatomical and functional organization of their nervous sys...

Mechatronic design and locomotion control of a robotic thunniform swimmer for fast cruising.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
This paper presents mechatronic design and locomotion control of a biomimetic robotic fish that swims using thunniform kinematics for fast cruising. Propulsion of the robotic fish is realized with a parallel four-bar propulsive mechanism that deliver...

Performance of synchronized fins in biomimetic propulsion.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
By using a two-dimensional model of ray fins, we numerically investigate the thrust generation by closely-coupled fins with an immersed boundary approach. The concentration is on the performance enhancement through fin-fin interactions and the underl...

Quadrupedal galloping control for a wide range of speed via vertical impulse scaling.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
This paper presents a bio-inspired quadruped controller that allows variable-speed galloping. The controller design is inspired by observations from biological runners. Quadrupedal animals increase the vertical impulse that is generated by ground rea...

Designing responsive pattern generators: stable heteroclinic channel cycles for modeling and control.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
A striking feature of biological pattern generators is their ability to respond immediately to multisensory perturbations by modulating the dwell time at a particular phase of oscillation, which can vary force output, range of motion, or other charac...