Slack-based tunable damping leads to a trade-off between robustness and efficiency in legged locomotion

Abstract Animals run robustly in diverse terrain. This locomotion robustness is puzzling because axon conduction velocity is limited to a few tens of meters per second. If reflex loops deliver sensory information with significant delays, one would expect a destabilizing effect on sensorimotor contro...

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Main Authors: An Mo, Fabio Izzi, Emre Cemal Gönen, Daniel Haeufle, Alexander Badri-Spröwitz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-02-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30318-3