Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems: 6th International Conference, Living Machines 2017, Stanford, CA, USA, July 26–28, 2017, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book 10384)

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Living Machines 2017, held in Stanford, CA, USA, in July 2017. The 42 full and 19 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The theme of the conference encompasses biomimetic methods for manufacture, repair and recycling inspired by natural processes such as reproduction, digestion, morphogenesis and metamorphosis. Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII Straight Swimming Algorithm Used by a Design of Biomimetic Robotic Fish....Pages 1-12 Animal and Robotic Locomotion on Wet Granular Media....Pages 13-24 Tunable Normal and Shear Force Discrimination by a Plant-Inspired Tactile Sensor for Soft Robotics....Pages 25-34 Pop! Observing and Modeling the Legless Self-righting Jumping Mechanism of Click Beetles....Pages 35-47 Bioinspired Magnetic Navigation Using Magnetic Signatures as Waypoints....Pages 48-60 Jellyfish Inspired Soft Robot Prototype Which Uses Circumferential Contraction for Jet Propulsion....Pages 61-72 You Made Him Be Alive: Children’s Perceptions of Animacy in a Humanoid Robot....Pages 73-85 Analysing the Limitations of Deep Learning for Developmental Robotics....Pages 86-94 Reducing Training Environments in Evolutionary Robotics Through Ecological Modularity....Pages 95-106 Automated Calibration of a Biomimetic Space-Dependent Model for Zebrafish and Robot Collective Behaviour in a Structured Environment....Pages 107-118 Spiking Cooperative Stereo-Matching at 2 ms Latency with Neuromorphic Hardware....Pages 119-137 Development of Novel Foam-Based Soft Robotic Ring Actuators for a Biomimetic Peristaltic Pumping System....Pages 138-147 Introducing Biomimomics: Combining Biomimetics and Comparative Genomics for Constraining Organismal and Technological Complexity....Pages 148-160 Effects of Locomotive Drift in Scale-Invariant Robotic Search Strategies....Pages 161-169 Simulation of Human Balance Control Using an Inverted Pendulum Model....Pages 170-180 Reducing Versatile Bat Wing Conformations to a 1-DoF Machine....Pages 181-192 Mathematical Modeling to Improve Control of Mesh Body for Peristaltic Locomotion....Pages 193-203 Neuronal Distance Estimation by a Fly-Robot Interface....Pages 204-215 Bio-inspired Robot Design Considering Load-Bearing and Kinematic Ontogeny of Chelonioidea Sea Turtles....Pages 216-229 Feather-Inspired Sensor for Stabilizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Turbulent Conditions....Pages 230-241 Towards Identifying Biological Research Articles in Computer-Aided Biomimetics....Pages 242-254 Deep Dynamic Programming: Optimal Control with Continuous Model Learning of a Nonlinear Muscle Actuated Arm....Pages 255-266 An Adaptive Modular Recurrent Cerebellum-Inspired Controller....Pages 267-278 Stimulus Control for Semi-autonomous Computer Canine-Training....Pages 279-290 Exploiting Morphology of a Soft Manipulator for Assistive Tasks....Pages 291-301 Autonomous Thrust-Assisted Perching of a Fixed-Wing UAV on Vertical Surfaces....Pages 302-314 An Integrated Compliant Fabric Skin Softens, Lightens, and Simplifies a Mesh Robot....Pages 315-327 Causal Biomimesis: Self-replication as Evolutionary Consequence....Pages 328-347 Non-ordinary Consciousness for Artificial Intelligence....Pages 348-362 A Biomimetic Vocalisation System for MiRo....Pages 363-374 A Scalable Neuro-inspired Robot Controller Integrating a Machine Learning Algorithm and a Spiking Cerebellar-Like Network....Pages 375-386 Behavior-State Dependent Modulation of Perception Based on a Model of Conditioning....Pages 387-393 Describing Robotic Bat Flight with Stable Periodic Orbits....Pages 394-405 Research of a Lensless Artificial Compound Eye....Pages 406-417 Development of a Bio-inspired Knee Joint Mechanism for a Bipedal Robot....Pages 418-427 Predator Evasion by a Robocrab....Pages 428-439 MantisBot Changes Stepping Speed by Entraining CPGs to Positive Velocity Feedback....Pages 440-452 EvoBot: Towards a Robot-Chemostat for Culturing and Maintaining Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs)....Pages 453-464 Using Deep Autoencoders to Investigate Image Matching in Visual Navigation....Pages 465-474 Self-organising Thermoregulatory Huddling in a Model of Soft Deformable Littermates....Pages 475-486 Bio-inspired Tensegrity Soft Modular Robots....Pages 487-496 Consciousness as an Evolutionary Game-Theoretic Strategy....Pages 497-508 Using the Robot Operating System for Biomimetic Research....Pages 509-514 Modeling of Bioinspired Apical Extension in a Soft Robot....Pages 515-521 A Biomechanical Characterization of Plant Root Tissues by Dynamic Nanoindentation Technique for Biomimetic Technologies....Pages 522-531 Biomimetic Creatures Teach Mechanical Systems Design....Pages 532-536 Soft Fingers with Controllable Compliance to Enable Realization of Low Cost Grippers....Pages 537-543 Self-organisation of Spatial Behaviour in a Kilobot Swarm....Pages 544-550 Bio-inspired Design of a Double-Sided Crawling Robot....Pages 551-561 A Closed Loop Shape Control for Bio-inspired Soft Arms....Pages 562-566 Learning Modular Sequences in the Striatum....Pages 567-573 Spermbots: Concept and Applications....Pages 574-578 An Insect-Scale Bioinspired Flapping-Wing-Mechanism for Micro Aerial Vehicle Development....Pages 579-588 Geometric Mechanics Applied to Tetrapod Locomotion on Granular Media....Pages 589-594 Bioinspired Grippers for Natural Curved Surface Perching....Pages 595-603 Collisional Diffraction Emerges from Simple Control of Limbless Locomotion....Pages 604-610 Binocular Vision Using Synthetic Nervous Systems....Pages 611-618 Cell Patterning Method by Vibratory Stimuli....Pages 619-625 Dry Adhesion of Artificial Gecko Setae Fabricated via Direct Laser Lithography....Pages 626-630 Gesture Recognition Through Classification of Acoustic Muscle Sensing for Prosthetic Control....Pages 631-636 Back Matter....Pages 637-642 ....Pages 643-645