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Here are reviews and notes on papers.  For starters they are all about distributed insect inspired robot locomotion.
 
Here are reviews and notes on papers.  For starters they are all about distributed insect inspired robot locomotion.
  
[[A Comparison of Three Insect Inspired Locomotion Controllers]]
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===Distributed/Centralized Robot Locomotion===
[[Lampreys]]
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*[[A Comparison of Three Insect Inspired Locomotion Controllers]] Farrell
[[The Ambler]]
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**[[Descendants of Farrell paper]]
[[Biologically Inspired Approaches to Robotics]] (Beer, Quinn, Chiel and Ritzmann)
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*[[Lampreys]]
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*[[The Ambler]]
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*[[Biologically Inspired Approaches to Robotics]] (Beer, Quinn, Chiel and Ritzmann)
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*[[A Distributed Neural Network Architecture for Hexapod Robot Locomotion]] Beer, Chiel, Quinn, Espenschied, Larsson
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*[[Controller for a four legged walking machine]] Still, Tilden
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*[[More by Tilden]]
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*[[Walking robots and the Central and Peripheral Control of Locomotion in Insects]] 1999 Delcomyn
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*[[More Brooks]]
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*[[More Beer]]
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*[[Porta and also Celaya]]
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*[[Wilson '66]]
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*[[Comparing different controllers for the coordination of a six-legged walker]] Roggendorf 2003
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*[[Analysis of a distributed model of leg coordination]] Calvitti, Beer 1999
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*[[An information theoretic landscape analysis of neuro-controlled embodied organisms]] Teo, Abbass, 2004
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===Questions===
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Where is the debate and the work now?  I understand if interest has moved elsewhere, like to swarms, but would this be because anything in this domain got resolved, or because people (including funders) got bored?
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===Media and Papers===
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I got all the papers off Google Scholar.
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Some videos here:  I can see my desk:
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http://www.youtube.com/user/chully00
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===Keywords===
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"Neuroethology ("neuro" Greek; related to nerve cells, "ethos" Greek; habit or custom) is an evolutionary and comparative approach to the study of animal behavior and its underlying biological causation by the nervous system. This interdisciplinary branch of neuroscience endeavors to understand how the central nervous system translates biologically relevant stimuli into behavioral activity, thus attempting to elucidate the structure and function of the neurophysiological "black box" that controls the natural behavior of animals, often referred to as "instinctive behavior" or "innate behavior"."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroethology

Latest revision as of 19:42, 31 October 2008

Here are reviews and notes on papers. For starters they are all about distributed insect inspired robot locomotion.

Contents

Distributed/Centralized Robot Locomotion


Questions

Where is the debate and the work now? I understand if interest has moved elsewhere, like to swarms, but would this be because anything in this domain got resolved, or because people (including funders) got bored?

Media and Papers

I got all the papers off Google Scholar. Some videos here: I can see my desk: http://www.youtube.com/user/chully00

Keywords

"Neuroethology ("neuro" Greek; related to nerve cells, "ethos" Greek; habit or custom) is an evolutionary and comparative approach to the study of animal behavior and its underlying biological causation by the nervous system. This interdisciplinary branch of neuroscience endeavors to understand how the central nervous system translates biologically relevant stimuli into behavioral activity, thus attempting to elucidate the structure and function of the neurophysiological "black box" that controls the natural behavior of animals, often referred to as "instinctive behavior" or "innate behavior"." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroethology