Lessons for Robotics From the Control Architecture of the Octopus.

ABSTRACT: Biological and artificial agents are faced with many of the same computational and mechanical problems, thus strategies evolved in the biological realm can serve as inspiration for robotic development. The octopus in particular represents an attractive model for biologically-inspired robotic design, as has been recognized for the emerging field of soft robotics. Conventional global planning-based approaches to controlling the large number of degrees of freedom in an octopus arm would be computationally intractable. Instead, the octopus appears to exploit a distributed control architecture that enables effective and computationally efficient arm control. Here we will describe the neuroanatomical organization of the octopus peripheral nervous system and discuss how this distributed neural ne

SUBMITTER: Sivitilli DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9339708 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature