Publications by Kamilo Andres Melo Becerra

Eel-like robot swims more efficiently with increasing joint amplitudes compared to constant joint amplitudes

Auke Ijspeert, Karen Ann J Mulleners, Kamilo Andres Melo Becerra, Alexandros Anastasiadis

This paper is associated with a video winner of a 2023 American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) Gallery of Fluid Motion Award for work presented at the DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion. ...

American Physical Society (APS)2024

Identification of the trade-off between speed and efficiency in undulatory swimming using a bio-inspired robot

Auke Ijspeert, Karen Ann J Mulleners, Laura Isabel Paez Coy, Kamilo Andres Melo Becerra, Alexandros Anastasiadis, Eric Daniel Tytell

Anguilliform swimmers, like eels or lampreys, are highly efficient swimmers. Key to understanding their performances is the relationship between the body’s kinematics and resulting swimming speed and efficiency. But, we cannot prescribe kinematics to livin ...

Nature Research2023

Animal robots in the African wilderness: Lessons learned and outlook for field robotics

Auke Ijspeert, Kamilo Andres Melo Becerra, Tomislav Horvat

In early 2016, we had the opportunity to test a pair of sprawling posture robots, one designed to mimic a crocodile and another designed to mimic a monitor lizard, along the banks of the Nile River in Uganda, Africa. These robots were developed uniquely fo ...

Amer Assoc Advancement Science2023

Emergence of robust self-organized undulatory swimming based on local hydrodynamic force sensing

Auke Ijspeert, Kamilo Andres Melo Becerra, Laura Isabel Paez Coy, Robin Thandiackal, Kyoichi Akiyama

Undulatory swimming represents an ideal behavior to investigate locomotion control and the role of the underlying central and peripheral components in the spinal cord. Many vertebrate swimmers have central pattern generators and local pressure-sensitive re ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2021

Performance tradeoffs in anguilliform swimming via viscoelastic modulation

Auke Ijspeert, Kamilo Andres Melo Becerra, Laura Isabel Paez Coy

OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC2021

Kinematic and dynamic analysis of the mosquito larvae gait

Auke Ijspeert, Mahmut Selman Sakar, Kamilo Andres Melo Becerra, Laura Isabel Paez Coy

OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC2020

Reverse-engineering the locomotion of a stem amniote

Auke Ijspeert, Kamilo Andres Melo Becerra, Tomislav Horvat, Konstantinos Karakasiliotis

Reconstructing the locomotion of extinct vertebrates offers insights into their palaeobiology and helps to conceptualize major transitions in vertebrate evolution. However, estimating the locomotor behaviour of a fossil species remains a challenge because ...

2019

Understanding Polypterus Senegalus Walking Locomotion from its Center of Mass Displacements

Auke Ijspeert, Kamilo Andres Melo Becerra, Laura Isabel Paez Coy

2019

The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics

Dario Floreano, Auke Ijspeert, Roland Siegwart, Stefano Mintchev, Kamilo Andres Melo Becerra, Davide Scaramuzza, Tomislav Horvat, Marco Hutter

Robotic technologies, whether they are remotely operated vehicles, autonomous agents, assistive devices, or novel control interfaces, offer many promising capabilities for deployment in real‐world environments. Postdisaster scenarios are a particularly rel ...

2019

Undulatory swimming control with local exteroceptive sensory feedback

Auke Ijspeert, Kamilo Andres Melo Becerra, Laura Isabel Paez Coy, Robin Thandiackal

OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC2019