Synchronous control is a fundamental and significant problem for controlling a multi-joint robot. In this article, by applying two coupled Rayleigh oscillators as the referred central pattern ...

Neuroscience has traditionally been dominated by an empiricist approach that partly stems from the influential work of Sherrington. In his research, Sherrington succeeded in identifying basic spinal ...

Eel movement involves stretch and pressure signals, enabling swimming, crawling, and recovery after spinal injury.

A well-trained athlete sprinting 100 yards performs a highly stereotyped, repetitive motor pattern. Neuroscientists understand that these rhythmic motor programs, such as walking, swimming and running ...

The cardiac ganglion (CG) is a central pattern generator, a neural network that, when activated, produces patterned motor outputs such as breathing and walking. The CG induces the heart contractions ...

The rhythmic activity of the central pattern generator (CPG) controlling locomotion emerges from complex interactions between the intrinsic membrane and synaptic properties of neurons involved and ...

Japan's National Science Museum is no stranger to eerily human androids: It employs two in its exhibition hall already. But for a week, they're getting a new colleague. Called "Alter," it has a very ...

Scientists have built a pair of robotic legs that mimic our own by using a computational equivalent of the central pattern generator found in our nervous system. Scientists have built a pair of ...

The long-term goals of this project are to investigate the organization of spinal respiratory circuits, evaluate conditions for activation of breathing by stimulation of limb muscle afferents in ...

In a new study, scientists from the University of Cologne gained new insights into the mechanism of the rhythmic activation of nerve cells (neurons) in stick insects that control the leg muscles ...

A neural circuit model tested in amphibious robots developed at EPFL shows how multisensory feedback enables eels to swim even after a spinal cord injury, while also providing new insights into the ...