Combining several sensorimotor systems: from insects to robot implementations

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Animals and robots need to integrate different sensorimotor systems to behave successfully. We added an optomotor system to our sound-localising robot, and investigated algorithms for combining the two behaviours. It has been claimed that crickets simply ‘add’ the outputs of the two responses. We show that several other explanations equally account for the cricket data, and that inhibitory interactions between the behaviours are successful for robot control.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDynamical Systems, Wave-Based Computation and Neuro-Inspired Robots
EditorsPaolo Arena
Place of PublicationVienna
PublisherSpringer
Pages131-142
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-211-78775-5
ISBN (Print)978-3-211-78774-8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008

Publication series

NameCISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences
PublisherSpringer Vienna
Volume500
ISSN (Print)0254-1971

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