This article is a historical perspective on how the study of the neuromechanics of insects and
other arthropods has inspired the construction, and especially the control, of hexapod …

A dynamical model of an animal's nervous system, or synthetic nervous system (SNS), is a
potentially transformational control method. Due to increasingly detailed data on the …

This manuscript describes neuromechanical modeling of the fruit fly Drosophila
melanogaster in the form of a hexapod robot, Drosophibot, and an accompanying dynamic …

We introduce Drosophibot, a hexapod robot with legs designed based on the Common fruit
fly, Drosophila melanogaster, built as a test platform for neural control development. The …

The purpose of this work is to better understand how animals control locomotion. This
knowledge can then be applied to neuromechanical design to produce more capable and …

This paper details the development and validation of a dynamic 3D compliant worm-like
robot model controlled by a Synthetic Nervous System (SNS). The model was built and …

The Synthetic Nervous System (SNS) is a biologically inspired neural network (NN). Due to
its capability of capturing complex mechanisms underlying neural computation, an SNS …

This paper details the development and analysis of a computational neuroscience model,
known as a Synthetic Nervous System, for the control of a simulated worm robot. Using a …

In this work, we analyze a simplified, dynamical, closed-loop, neuromechanical simulation of
insect joint control. We are specifically interested in two elements:(1) how slow muscle fibers …

Feedback from load and movement sensors can modify timing and magnitude of the motor
output in the stepping stick insect. One source of feedback is stretch reception by the femoral …