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Puppeteer and Marionette: Learning Anticipatory Quadrupedal Locomotion Based on Interactions of a Central Pattern Generator and Supraspinal Drive
Auke Ijspeert, Guillaume Denis Antoine Bellegarda, Milad Shafiee Ashtiani
Quadruped animal locomotion emerges from the interactions between the spinal central pattern generator (CPG), sensory feedback, and supraspinal drive signals from the brain. Computational models of CPGs have been widely used for investigating the spinal co ...
New York2023Flexible surgical device with controllable stiffness
The invention relates to a surgical device (10), comprising a tubular outer shaft (12,) and an inner element (14) having an elongated shape, the outer shaft comprising a distal (30a) and a proximal (30b) outer hinges, the inner element comprising an inner ...
2022Hunting for the wavefront: investigation of somite boundary positioning in zebrafish
Somitogenesis is the rhythmic and sequential formation of somites, which are tissue blocks that give rise to segmented adult body structures including the vertebrae and associated muscle. Somite formation is controlled by the segmentation clock, a populati ...
EPFL2022Decoding the essential interplay between central and peripheral control in adaptive locomotion of amphibious centipedes
Amphibious animals adapt their body coordination to compensate for changing substrate properties as they transition between terrestrial and aquatic environments. Using behavioural experiments and mathematical modelling of the amphibious centipede Scolopend ...
2019Aquatic Fungi: A Disregarded Trophic Level in Ecological Risk Assessment of Organic Fungicides
Freshwater fungi are a diverse group of organisms and fulfill important functions in the food web dynamics of surface water ecosystems. Ascomycetic and basidiomycetic hyphomycetes play key roles in leaf litter breakdown in rivers and creeks, while parasiti ...
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2018Effects of passive and active joint compliance in quadrupedal locomotion
Auke Ijspeert, Mehmet Hasan Mutlu, Alexandre Bernardino
Compliance of the body has a crucial role on locomotion performance. The levels and the distribution of compliance should be well tuned to obtain efficient gait. The leg stiffness changes significantly even during different phases of a single gait cycle. T ...
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2018Anatomical and functional properties of the foot and leg representation in areas 3b, 1 and 2 of primary somatosensory cortex in humans: A 7T fMRI study
Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Michel Akselrod, Wietske Van der Zwaag, Roger Gassert, Roberto Martuzzi
Primary somatosensory cortex (S1) processes somatosensory information and is composed of multiple subregions. In particular, tactile information from the skin is encoded in three subregions, namely Brodmann areas (BAs) 3b, 1 and 2, with each area represent ...
2017Evaluation of knee functional calibration with and without the effect of soft tissue artefact
Functional calibration methods were devised to improve repeatability and accuracy of the knee flexion-extension axis, which is used to define the medio-lateral axis of the femur coordinate system in gait analysis. Repeatability of functional calibration me ...
Elsevier2017Delta-Notch signalling in segmentation
Modular body organization is found widely across multicellular organisms, and some of them form repetitive modular structures via the process of segmentation. It's vastly interesting to understand how these regularly repeated structures are robustly genera ...
Elsevier Sci Ltd2017Climbing favours the tripod gait over alternative faster insect gaits
Dario Floreano, Auke Ijspeert, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Pavan P Ramdya, Robin Thandiackal
To escape danger or catch prey, running vertebrates rely on dynamic gaits with minimal ground contact. By contrast, most insects use a tripod gait that maintains at least three legs on the ground at any given time. One prevailing hypothesis for this differ ...
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