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Drosophibot: A Fruit Fly Inspired Bio-Robot

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Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems (Living Machines 2019)

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We introduce Drosophibot, a hexapod robot with legs designed based on the Common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, built as a test platform for neural control development. The robot models anatomical aspects not present in other, similar bio-robots such as a retractable abdominal segment, insect-like dynamic scaling, and compliant feet segments in the hopes that more similar biomechanics will lead to more similar neural control and resulting behaviors. In increasing biomechanical modeling accuracy, we aim to gain further insight into the insect’s nervous system to inform the current model and subsequent neural controllers for legged robots.

Supported by the National Science Foundation (Grant Number: 1704436).

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  1. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA

    Clarissa Goldsmith, Nicholas Szczecinski & Roger Quinn

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  1. University of Bath, Bath, UK

    Uriel Martinez-Hernandez

  2. SPECS, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

    Vasiliki Vouloutsi

  3. SPECS, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

    Anna Mura

  4. University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

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  5. Osaka University, Suita, Japan

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    Tony J. Prescott

  7. SPECS, ICREA, BIST, Barcelona, Spain

    Paul F.M.J. Verschure

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Goldsmith, C., Szczecinski, N., Quinn, R. (2019). Drosophibot: A Fruit Fly Inspired Bio-Robot. In: Martinez-Hernandez, U., et al. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Living Machines 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11556. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24741-6_13

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