Abstract
In the experiments a crayfish walked with the legs of the left and right side on separate motor-driven belts. Even when the belts were driven with different speeds, the animal tried to synchronize the leg movements of both sides. The resulting effect can be described as relative coordination. A model calculation is presented which is sufficient to describe the interactions between the legs.
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Müller, U. (1990). Coordination of Contralateral Legs in Walking Crayfish. In: Alt, W., Hoffmann, G. (eds) Biological Motion. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 89. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51664-1_15
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