Designer differential equations for Animal Locomotion Stewart 2000

Stewart is coming from the group theory perspective; using symmetry to help constrain the kinds of models that researchers consider to exhibit gaits. This paper is a broad strokes kind of paper that offers a rough procedure (or argues for the existence of one?) for engineering distributed locomotor control schemes. he is actually arguing for incorparating concerns of symmetry into such design but he takes that to be the former claim. sort of.

Most of his examples are from the Collins Golubitsky work and its descendants. he introduces the idea of Ant Country. It comes fromlangton's ant and describes a comicated coomputation 'that appears to not have any shortcuts'. Infintie suburbia is another idea related to it. i liked it. "Imagine you are in a city, and at the street corner you find a bar, a fast food outlet, and a stop sign. long the street you can see a trffic light and a supermarket. Along another street is a church. Further down the road is a park. Where are you? t could be almost anywhere.

Ths paper also reviews the animal gait prediction work and its results.