Toward Understanding the Interlimb Coordination Mechanism Underlying Legged Locomotion
Event details
| Date | 30.01.2015 |
| Hour | 11:00 |
| Speaker | Prof. Akio Ishiguro, Tohoku University, Japan |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Animals are able to exhibit surprisingly adaptive and resilient behavior in real time under real world constraints. Such movements are achieved via spatiotemporal coordination of a large number of bodily degrees of freedom in response to the environment. Clarifying the control principle underlying this remarkable ability of animals allows us to understand biological system more deeply as well as to construct truly adaptive robots that could not be realized solely by the conventional robotics methodology. In this talk, I will mainly introduce the latest results of our robotic case study on CPG-based interlimb coordination mechanism for quadruped locomotion.
Bio: He received B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Nagoya University in 1987, 1989, and 1991, respectively. From 1991 to 1997, he was with Nagoya University as an assistant professor. From May 1997 to 2006, he was an associate professor, Nagoya University. From 2006 to 2011, he was a professor, Tohoku University.
Since April 2011, he has been a professor of Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University. His main research interests are in biologically-inspired robotics, mathematical biology, nonlinear dynamics. He received 2003 IROS Best Paper Award Nomination Finalist, 2004 IROS Best Paper Award, 2008 Ig Nobel Prize(Cognitive Science Prize), 2009 IROS Best Paper Award Nomination Finalist, 2011 IEEE/RSJ NTF Award Finalist for Entertainment Robots and Systems. 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems JTCF Novel Technology Paper Award Finalist. 2012 The International Conference on Biomimetic & Biohybrid Systems Best Paper Award.
Bio: He received B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Nagoya University in 1987, 1989, and 1991, respectively. From 1991 to 1997, he was with Nagoya University as an assistant professor. From May 1997 to 2006, he was an associate professor, Nagoya University. From 2006 to 2011, he was a professor, Tohoku University.
Since April 2011, he has been a professor of Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University. His main research interests are in biologically-inspired robotics, mathematical biology, nonlinear dynamics. He received 2003 IROS Best Paper Award Nomination Finalist, 2004 IROS Best Paper Award, 2008 Ig Nobel Prize(Cognitive Science Prize), 2009 IROS Best Paper Award Nomination Finalist, 2011 IEEE/RSJ NTF Award Finalist for Entertainment Robots and Systems. 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems JTCF Novel Technology Paper Award Finalist. 2012 The International Conference on Biomimetic & Biohybrid Systems Best Paper Award.
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- Prof. Auke Ijspeert
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