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Smart robot appendages with integrated actuators, sensors and ...
Example for Submitting a Research Proposal Smart robot appendages with integrated actuators, sensors and preflexes Topic 8.9. Enabling Technologies for Robotics
http://www.icpostdoc.org/pdf/research_proposal.pdf
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Robust Dynamic Locomotion Through Feedforward-Preflex Interact
Suggested roles of feedforward motor patterns, preflexes, and sensory feedback. Adapted from Full and Koditschek (1999). Mechanical System (muscles, limbs) Environment Mechanical Feedback ...
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/%7Ejgcham/publications/dsc2000.pdf
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Stride Period Adaptation for a Biomimetic Running Hexapod
A combination of stabilizing passive mechan isms, or "preflexes," and sensor-based adaptation of an open-loop feed-forward controller provides insects and small robots with a ...
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/%7Ejgcham/publications/ijrr2002.pdf
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INTRINSIC AND REFLEXIVE COMPONENTS TO PERTURBATION REJECTION IN THE ...
Preflexes can greatly simplify control during rapid gross rhythmic activity. REFERENCES Brown, IE and Loeb, GE (2000). Biomechanics and Neural Control of Movement.
http://www.asbweb.org/conferences/2001/pdf/138.pdf
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Respiratory, postural and spatio-kinetic motor stabilization, internal ...
Preflexes Preflexes are an instantaneous and nonneurological means built physiologically into the musculoskeletal system to protect it from perturbation.
http://precedings.nature.com/documents/2092/version/1/files/npre20082092-1.pdf
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Effect of equinus foot placement and intrinsic muscle response on knee ...
Because intrinsic properties of muscle provide a spring-like response to changes in fiber length and velocity, these ''preflexes''form the body'sfirst line of defense against external ...
http://www.musculographics.com/pdf/Higginson2006.pdf
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Insect-like Antennal Sensing for Climbing and Tunneling Behavior in a ...
These passive leg adjustments are similar to the preflexes described by Loeb et al. [3]. A cockroach enhances its climbing abilities by changing its body posture before and during a ...
http://biorobots.case.edu/publications/ICRA05_Lewinger_WhegsII.pdf
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Biological Actuators are not just Springs Investigating Muscle ...
More generally, the concept of 'preflexes'[5]summarizes the idea that the intrinsic dynamics ofa musculoskeletal system alone can be sufficient for self-stabilization[11]and that they ...
http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/ezequiel/muscle.pdf
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J. Exp. Biol.
These responses are sometimes referred to as preflexes (Brown and Loeb, 2000). A structure that reacts to a perturbation through sensory modulation of the efferent motor code or ...
http://polypedal.berkeley.edu/twiki/pub/PolyPEDAL/PolypedalPublications/Sponberg_JEB.pdf
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Dynamics and stability of insect locomotion: a hex apedalmodel for ...
... by the suggestion of Brown and Loebthat, in rapid movements, "detailed"neural feedback (reflexes) might be par-tiallyorwholly replaced by largely mechanical feedback (preflexes ...
http://polypedal.berkeley.edu/twiki/pub/PolyPEDAL/PolypedalPublications/Dynamics_2004_Biol.Cyber.pdf
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