Biomimetic And Biohybrid Systems: 4th International Conference, Living Machines 2015, Barcelona, Spain, July 28 - 31, 2015, Proceedings (lecture Notes In Computer Science)

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Living Machines 2015, held in Barcelona, Spain, in July 2015. The 34 full and 13 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The themes they deal with are: locomotion, particularly for soft-bodies; novel sensing and autonomous control systems; and cognitive architectures, social robots, and human-robot interaction. 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