Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems: 4th International Conference, Living Machines 2015, Barcelona, Spain, July 28 - 31, 2015, Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
A Model of Larval Biomechanics Reveals Exploitable Passive Properties for Efficient Locomotion....Pages 1-12
Dynamic Walking with a Soft Limb Robot....Pages 13-25
Worm-Like Robotic Locomotion with a Compliant Modular Mesh....Pages 26-37
WormTIP: An Invertebrate Inspired Active Tactile Imaging Pneumostat....Pages 38-49
Copying Nature - A Design of Hyper-Redundant Robot Joint/Support Based on Hydrostatic Skeleton....Pages 50-63
An Under-Actuated and Adaptable Soft Robotic Gripper....Pages 64-74
Measuring the Local Viscosity and Velocity of Fluids Using a Biomimetic Tactile Whisker....Pages 75-85
Biomimicry of the Manduca Sexta Forewing Using SRT Protein Complex for FWMAV Development....Pages 86-91
Correlating Kinetics and Kinematics of Earthworm Peristaltic Locomotion....Pages 92-96
Visualizing Wakes in Swimming Locomotion of Xenopus-Noid by Using PIV....Pages 97-100
Biomimetic Approach for the Creation of Deployable Canopies Based on the Unfolding of a Beetle Wing and the Blooming of a Flower....Pages 101-112
Biomimetic Tactile Sensing Capsule....Pages 113-122
Wings of a Feather Stick Together: Morphing Wings with Barbule-Inspired Latching....Pages 123-134
Obstacle-Avoidance Navigation by an Autonomous Vehicle Inspired by a Bat Biosonar Strategy....Pages 135-144
Development of Piezoelectric Artificial Cochlea Inspired by Human Hearing Organ....Pages 145-152
Visual Odometry and Low Optic Flow Measurement by Means of a Vibrating Artificial Compound Eye....Pages 153-163
Closed-Loop Control in an Autonomous Bio-hybrid Robot System Based on Binocular Neuronal Input....Pages 164-174
MantisBot: A Platform for Investigating Mantis Behavior via Real-Time Neural Control....Pages 175-186
The Vertical Optic Flow: An Additional Cue for Stabilizing Beerotor Robot’s Flight Without IMU....Pages 187-198
Route Following Without Scanning....Pages 199-210
Using Animal Data and Neural Dynamics to Reverse Engineer a Neuromechanical Rat Model....Pages 211-222
Entraining and Copying of Temporal Correlations in Dissociated Cultured Neurons....Pages 223-226
Remodeling Muscle Cells by Inducing Mechanical Stimulus....Pages 227-230
Integration of Biological Neural Models for the Control of Eye Movements in a Robotic Head....Pages 231-242
Saying It with Light: A Pilot Study of Affective Communication Using the MIRO Robot....Pages 243-255
Integrating Feedback and Predictive Control in a Bio-Inspired Model of Visual Pursuit Implemented on a Humanoid Robot....Pages 256-267
Knowledge Transfer in Deep Block-Modular Neural Networks....Pages 268-279
A Top-Down Approach for a Synthetic Autobiographical Memory System....Pages 280-292
Crowdseeding: A Novel Approach for Designing Bioinspired Machines....Pages 293-303
Studying the Coupled Learning of Procedural and Declarative Knowledge in Cognitive Robotics....Pages 304-315
Damasio’s Somatic Marker for Social Robotics: Preliminary Implementation and Test....Pages 316-328
Learning Sensory Correlations for 3D Egomotion Estimation....Pages 329-338
How iCub Learns to Imitate Use of a Tool Quickly by Recycling the Past Knowledge Learnt During Drawing....Pages 339-347
Children’s Age Influences Their Perceptions of a Humanoid Robot as Being Like a Person or Machine....Pages 348-353
Help! I Can’t Reach the Buttons: Facilitating Helping Behaviors Towards Robots....Pages 354-358
Tactile Language for a Head-Mounted Sensory Augmentation Device....Pages 359-365
An Energetically-Autonomous Robotic Tadpole with Single Membrane Stomach and Tail....Pages 366-378
Multi-objective Optimization of Multi-level Models for Controlling Animal Collective Behavior with Robots....Pages 379-390
Effects of the Robot’s Role on Human-Robot Interaction in an Educational Scenario....Pages 391-402
Adaptive Bio-inspired Signals for Better Object Characterisation....Pages 403-409
Mechanical Improvements to TCERA, a Tunable Compliant Energy Return Actuator....Pages 410-414
Active Control for Object Perception and Exploration with a Robotic Hand....Pages 415-428
Fabrication of Electrocompacted Aligned Collagen Morphs for Cardiomyocyte Powered Living Machines....Pages 429-440
Extending a Hippocampal Model for Navigation Around a Maze Generated from Real-World Data....Pages 441-452
Towards a Two-Phase Model of Sensor and Motor Learning....Pages 453-460
Telepresence: Immersion with the iCub Humanoid Robot and the Oculus Rift....Pages 461-464
Biophilic Evolutionary Buildings that Restore the Experience of Animality in the City....Pages 465-472
Back Matter....Pages 473-474