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The sine-based method is verified efficient in limbless gait generation in the literature. However, more attempts were put on how to combine sinusoidal generators into a network to investigate what a limbless gait can be generated. The work on the other way around, i.e., from observation of limbless gait in nature to sinusoidal generator design, is seldom seen. Furthermore, there were few sine-based limbless locomotion applications that integrate sensory information for achieving high-level tasks. In this chapter, we present our attempts on utilizing sinusoidal generators for caterpillar-like gait generation (Li et al. 2011, 2015), and closed-loop control in an exploration task (Li et al. 2020).
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Li, G., Zhang, H., Zhang, J. (2023). Sinusoidal Generator—An Attempt to Limbless Locomotion. In: Bio-Inspired Locomotion Control of Limbless Robots. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8384-9_3
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