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Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Motion Generation and Adaptation in Animals

  2. Adaptive Mechanics

  3. Machine Design and Control

  4. Bipedal Locomotion Utilizing Natural Dynamics

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• Motivation It is our dream to understand the principles of animals’ remarkable ability for adaptive motion and to transfer such abilities to a robot. Up to now, mechanisms for generation and control of stereotyped motions and adaptive motions in well-known simple environments have been formulated to some extentandsuccessfullyappliedtorobots.However,principlesofadaptationto variousenvironmentshavenotyetbeenclari?ed,andautonomousadaptation remains unsolved as a seriously di?cult problem in robotics. Apparently, the ability of animals and robots to adapt in a real world cannot be explained or realized by one single function in a control system and mechanism. That is, adaptation in motion is induced at every level from thecentralnervoussystemtothemusculoskeletalsystem.Thus,weorganized the International Symposium on Adaptive Motion in Animals and Machines(AMAM)forscientistsandengineersconcernedwithadaptation onvariouslevelstobebroughttogethertodiscussprinciplesateachleveland to investigate principles governing total systems. • History AMAM started in Montreal (Canada) in August 2000. It was organized by H. Kimura (Japan), H. Witte (Germany), G. Taga (Japan), and K. Osuka (Japan), who had agreed that having a small symposium on motion control, with people from several ?elds coming together to discuss speci?c issues, was worthwhile. Those four organizing committee members determined the scope of AMAM as follows.

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"This book, which is a collection of 23 papers presented at the first two International Symposia on Adaptive Motion in Animals and Machines (AMAM) … . This book is an outstanding collection of writings by key investigators in the field, and it is highly recommended to researchers in robotics interested in building biologically inspired machines." (G. A. Bekey, Computing Reviews, August, 2006)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Graduate School of Information Systems, University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan

    Hiroshi Kimura

  • Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Kazuo Tsuchiya

  • Department of Computational Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

    Akio Ishiguro

  • Department of Biomechatronics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany

    Hartmut Witte

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines

  • Editors: Hiroshi Kimura, Kazuo Tsuchiya, Akio Ishiguro, Hartmut Witte

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/4-431-31381-8

  • Publisher: Springer Tokyo

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Tokyo 2006

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-24164-5Published: 15 December 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56313-6Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-31381-6Published: 28 July 2006

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 298

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence

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