Shlomi Hanassy
Hanassy R&D Ltd., Israel
Title: Introduction to octopus arm motor control neuro-biology and biomimetics
Biography
Biography: Shlomi Hanassy
Abstract
Octopuses where always a fascinating animals with their spectacular line of
unique features. Here will review many of those features focusing on the
arm motor control. Similar to tongue and the elephant trunk, the octopus arm
is a muscle hydrostat, hyper-redundant, structure. The computational process
involved in the generation of a movement in such structure is a highlight
for motor control engineers. During that process, a reduction of the motor
control problem complexity is obtained by reducing degrees of freedom,
using stereotypical motor primitives, which are simply modulated instead of
calculated, to achieve the required movement. That principle inspired many
robotic engineers to achieve new kind of control: embedded intelligence. Here
we will present some results of such bio-robotic engineering and novel applications.