Summary

the 2014 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications

2014

Session Number:A1L-B

Session:

Number:A1L-B4

Doing Well in Narrow Aisle! Decentralized Control Mechanism Underlying Adaptive Concertina Locomotion of Snakes

Takeshi Kano,  Fuyuhiko Satake,  Hisashi Date,  Kosuke Inoue,  Akio Ishiguro,  

pp.32-35

Publication Date:2014/9/14

Online ISSN:2188-5079

DOI:10.34385/proc.46.A1L-B4

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Summary:
Snakes exhibit various gait patterns in response to the environment. To elucidate the mechanism underlying this ability of snakes, we previously proposed a model based on autonomous decentralized control. Although it could reproduce various gait patterns, it could not reproduce concertina locomotion, which is a typical gait pattern in narrow aisles. In this study, we added a local reflexive mechanism to our previous model and successfully simulated concertina locomotion in a narrow aisle.