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Spiking control systems for soft robotics: a rhythmic case study in a soft robotic crawler
Juncal Arbelaiz, Alessio Franci, Naomi Ehrich Leonard +2
Inspired by spiking neural feedback, we propose a spiking controller to engineer the locomotion of a soft robotic crawler. Its bistability, akin to neural fast positive feedback, c…
Optimal gait design for nonlinear soft robotic crawlers
Yenan Shen, Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Bassam Bamieh +1
Soft robots offer a frontier in robotics with enormous potential for safe human-robot interaction and agility in uncertain environments. A stepping stone towards unlocking their po…
Optimal estimation in spatially distributed systems: how far to share measurements from?
Juncal Arbelaiz, Bassam Bamieh, Anette E. Hosoi +1
We consider the centralized optimal estimation problem in spatially distributed systems. We use the setting of spatially invariant systems as an idealization for which concrete and…
Excitable crawling
Juncal Arbelaiz, Alessio Franci, Naomi Ehrich Leonard +2
We propose and analyze the suitability of a spiking controller to engineer the locomotion of a soft robotic crawler. Inspired by the FitzHugh-Nagumo model of neural excitability, w…