Abstract
Stability and manoeuvrability in animal movement: lessons from biology, modelling and robotics.
Highlights
New technologies and the increasing integration of biological and engineering approaches are revealing fundamental new insights into how animals actuate and control movement to achieve agility, stability and economy while manoeuvring and navigating through complex environments
Agile locomotion is fundamental to successful biological performance, such as predator–prey interactions, mating, obstacle traversal and avoidance, and navigation, as well as engineering designs that emulate such performance
We summarize below the main results and approaches taken by the authors of the papers published in this theme issue on Stability and manoeuvrability in animal movement: lessons from biology, modelling and robotics
Summary
New technologies and the increasing integration of biological and engineering approaches are revealing fundamental new insights into how animals actuate and control movement to achieve agility, stability and economy while manoeuvring and navigating through complex environments. New computational approaches provide powerful tools for modelling the neuro-musculoskeletal control of complex body systems with many degrees of freedom. These experimental and modelling approaches, in turn, are driving the development and implementation of diverse bioinspired robots based on abstracted biological concepts, leading to new insights for the rehabilitation of human neuromotor deficits. We summarize below the main results and approaches taken by the authors of the papers published in this theme issue on Stability and manoeuvrability in animal movement: lessons from biology, modelling and robotics. The assembled topics cover modes of animal locomotion in water, in air and over ground, highlighting novel interdisciplinary approaches that integrate neuroscience, biomechanics and physics with computational methods and engineering design
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