Amphibious and sprawling locomotion: from biology to robotics and back

AJ Ijspeert - Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
… coupled neural oscillators—the central pattern generators (CPGs)—and … that these CPGs
have different intrinsic frequencies. … these different gaits and determine when it is best to switch …

[PDF][PDF] Metastable attractors explain the variable timing of stable behavioral action sequences

S Recanatesi, U Pereira-Obilinovic, M Murakami… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
… environment, animals generate naturalistic behavior in the form … port was followed directly
by a movement to the reward port (… the similarity between the optimized features (emission r …

Movement is governed by rotational neural dynamics in spinal motor networks

H Lindén, PC Petersen, M Vestergaard, RW Berg - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
… To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a … , often referred to as central pattern
generators (CPGs), are … a push–pull organization with intrinsically rhythmic modules 16,17 , …

Cortical pattern generation during dexterous movement is input-driven

BA Sauerbrei, JZ Guo, JD Cohen, M Mischiati, W Guo… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
… To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a … they may also have a pattern-generating
role. Here we dissect … First, the local architecture intrinsic to motor cortex imposes a …

What defines different modes of snake locomotion?

BC Jayne - Integrative and comparative biology, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… lateral undulation and concertina are best used for defining … Hence, the intrinsic skin
musculature provides a mechanism … cancel each other out and generate a resultant propulsive …

[PDF][PDF] Multiple rhythm-generating circuits act in tandem with pacemaker properties to control the start and speed of locomotion

J Song, I Pallucchi, J Ausborn, K Ampatzis, M Bertuzzi… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
… it remains unclear how the locomotor central pattern generator (CPG) … circuit connectivity
rules and intrinsic properties of the … locomotion is required for the realization of many behaviors. …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in evolutionary and bio-inspired adaptive robotics: Exploiting embodied dynamics

P Husbands, Y Shim, M Garvie, A Dewar… - Applied …, 2021 - Springer
… processing that these processes enable is an intrinsic property of various classes of neurons,
such … to power locomotion). The best designs evolved in simulation were then created in a …

Formalizing planning and information search in naturalistic decision-making

LT Hunt, ND Daw, P Kaanders, MA MacIver… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
… To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a … Curiosity can be defined as the
natural intrinsic motivation and … for a cognitive function generate recurring, albeit potentially …

Search efficiency of discrete fractional Brownian motion in a random distribution of targets

SMJ Khadem, SHL Klapp, R Klages - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
… observe any universal search optimization in terms of maximising a search efficiency. On …
to be intrinsic. In terms of movement, one may think of memory as generating persistence or …

Ride: Rewarding impact-driven exploration for procedurally-generated environments

R Raileanu, T Rocktäschel - arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.12292, 2020 - arxiv.org
… -generated MiniGrid environments. Furthermore, we analyze the learned behavior as well
as the intrinsic … The best intrinsic reward coefficient was 0.1 for ICM and RND, and 0.005 for …