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February 05, 2015 / by George Council / In news

Comparative whole-body kinematics of closely related insect species with different body morphology

A compartive study between morphology of insects and the influence on gait. The results could be interesting - from a template/anchor perspective, it would be seeing if a similiar 'motion primitive' is being employed despite variation in exact morphology. If so, it might provide insight - if not, it might be suggestive that the template/anchor model is wrong.

Event Triggered Stablization

Event-triggered control is an idea that appears pleasing theoretically, as well as relaxes the need to have periodic signalling - robotics, it would reduce computation and communication loads.

A direct method for Trajectory Optimization of Rigid Bodies Through Contact

A paper about trajectory optimization in hybrid systems. Interesting, as it relaxes would be naively been consider a core constraint of hybrid systems - the order at which vector fields are switched through. While specific for a rigid body, it provides a scablable numerical tool to optimizie over the 'aggregate' dynamics, rather than find optimal solutions in each vector field with a known ordering

Comparative whole-body kinematics of closely related insect species with different body morphology

Event Triggered Stablization

A direct method for Trajectory Optimization of Rigid Bodies Through Contact

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