Central pattern generators for locomotion control in animals and robots: a review

AJ Ijspeert - Neural networks, 2008 - Elsevier
The problem of controlling locomotion is an area in which neuroscience and robotics can
fruitfully interact. In this article, I will review research carried out on locomotor central pattern …

Approaches to revealing the neural basis of muscle synergies: a review and a critique

VCK Cheung, K Seki - Journal of neurophysiology, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
The central nervous system (CNS) may produce coordinated motor outputs via the
combination of motor modules representable as muscle synergies. Identification of muscle …

[HTML][HTML] Control of mammalian locomotion by somatosensory feedback

A Frigon, T Akay, BI Prilutsky - Comprehensive physiology, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
When animals walk overground, mechanical stimuli activate various receptors located in
muscles, joints and skin. Afferents from these mechanoreceptors project to neuronal …

A survey on CPG-inspired control models and system implementation

J Yu, M Tan, J Chen, J Zhang - IEEE transactions on neural …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper surveys the developments of the last 20 years in the field of central pattern
generator (CPG) inspired locomotion control, with particular emphasis on the fast emerging …

Organization of mammalian locomotor rhythm and pattern generation

DA McCrea, IA Rybak - Brain research reviews, 2008 - Elsevier
Central pattern generators (CPGs) located in the spinal cord produce the coordinated
activation of flexor and extensor motoneurons during locomotion. Previously proposed …

[HTML][HTML] And yet it moves: recovery of volitional control after spinal cord injury

G Taccola, D Sayenko, P Gad, Y Gerasimenko… - Progress in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Preclinical and clinical neurophysiological and neurorehabilitation research has generated
rather surprising levels of recovery of volitional sensory-motor function in persons with …

Mechanisms underlying the neuromodulation of spinal circuits for correcting gait and balance deficits after spinal cord injury

EM Moraud, M Capogrosso, E Formento, N Wenger… - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
Epidural electrical stimulation of lumbar segments facilitates standing and walking in animal
models and humans with spinal cord injury. However, the mechanisms through which this …

Modelling spinal circuitry involved in locomotor pattern generation: insights from deletions during fictive locomotion

IA Rybak, NA Shevtsova… - The Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The mammalian spinal cord contains a locomotor central pattern generator (CPG) that can
produce alternating rhythmic activity of flexor and extensor motoneurones in the absence of …

Computational modeling of spinal circuits controlling limb coordination and gaits in quadrupeds

SM Danner, NA Shevtsova, A Frigon, IA Rybak - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Interactions between cervical and lumbar spinal circuits are mediated by long propriospinal
neurons (LPNs). Ablation of descending LPNs in mice disturbs left-right coordination at high …

Topographic independent component analysis

A Hyvärinen - Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience, 2022 - Springer
Instead of using empirical functions, it is also possible to deduce the functional form of the
voltage dependence of the rate constants from thermodynamics and in particular from the …