Modeling the Neuromuscular Control System of an Octopus Arm
arXiv:2211.06767 · doi:10.1007/s00422-025-01019-z
Abstract
The octopus arm is a neuromechanical system that involves a complex interplay between peripheral nervous system (PNS) and arm musculature. This makes the arm capable of carrying out rich maneuvers. In this paper, we build a model for the PNS and integrate it with a muscular soft octopus arm. The proposed neuromuscular architecture is used to qualitatively reproduce several biophysical observations in real octopuses, including curled rest shapes and target-directed arm reaching motions. Two control laws are proposed for target-oriented arm motions, and their performance is compared against a benchmark. Several analytical results, including rest-state characterization and stability properties of the proposed control laws, are provided.
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