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Self-Organization of Spinal Reflexes through Soft Musculoskeletal Interactions

Marques, H. G.
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Völk, K.
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König, S.
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2012
The 4th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2012)
The 4th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2012)

There has been a long-standing debate on the question of how basic reflexive behaviours in mammals come about. Recently, it has been hypothesized that soft musculoskeletal interactions, such as intrinsic passive dynamics, might play a crucial role in the development of motor control at an early developmental stage. Inspired by the developmental processes, this paper explores a learning framework that enables us to systematically investigate the sensorimotor activity induced in soft musculoskeletal systems, as well as to self-organize a set of decentralized controllers analogue to spinal reflexes in mammals. This paper particularly focuses on three reflexes: the Myotatic reflex, the Reciprocal Inhibition reflex and the Reverse Myotatic reflex. We tested our framework in a simulated pair of soft muscles assembled in an agonist-antagonist arrangement. Our results show that the reflex circuitry as well as the reflex behaviour obtained are consistent with those observed in the mammal spinal cord.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/BioRob.2012.6290747
Author(s)
Marques, H. G.
Völk, K.
König, S.
Iida, F.
Date Issued

2012

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The 4th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2012)
Start page

606

End page

611

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REVIEWED

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OTHER

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NCCR-ROBOTICS  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
The 4th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2012)

Rome, Italy

June 24-27, 2012

Available on Infoscience
June 28, 2012
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