A Minimal Model Describing Hexapedal Interlimb Coordination: The Tegotae-Based Approach.

ABSTRACT: Insects exhibit adaptive and versatile locomotion despite their minimal neural computing. Such locomotor patterns are generated via coordination between leg movements, i.e., an interlimb coordination, which is largely controlled in a distributed manner by neural circuits located in thoracic ganglia. However, the mechanism responsible for the interlimb coordination still remains elusive. Understanding this mechanism will help us to elucidate the fundamental control principle of animals' agile locomotion and to realize robots with legs that are truly adaptive and could not be developed solely by conventional control theories. This study aims at providing a "minimal" model of the interlimb coordination mechanism underlying hexapedal locomotion, in the hope that a single control principle coul

SUBMITTER: Owaki D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5465294 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature