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Chapter and Conference Paper
Autonomous Wheeled Locomotion on Irregular Terrain with Tactile Sensing
Adopting the concept of the tactile wheel, which considers the interaction between the wheel and the ground, this paper simulates reinforcement learning to show the usefulness of tactile sensing for autonomous...
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Article
Open AccessSoft Actuation and Compliant Mechanisms in Humanoid Robots
We aimed to reveal the impact of soft robotics, which has developed in the last decade, on humanoid robotics research. Although humanoid robots are usually classified as hard robotics, softness should be integ...
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Article
Creating and modulating rhythms by controlling the physics of the body
The motion behaviors of vertebrates require the correct coordination of the muscles and of the body limbs even for the most stereotyped ones like the rhythmical patterns. It means that the neural circuits have...