An Image-Based Method for the Morphological Analysis of Tendrils
with 2D Piece-Wise Clothoid Approximation Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
80
Jie Fan, Francesco Visentin, Emanuela Del Dottore,
and Barbara Mazzolai
Cholinergic Control of Chaos and Evidence Sensitivity in a Neocortical
Model of Perceptual Decision-Making . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
92
Adrián F. Amil, Jordi-Ysard Puigbò, and Paul F. M. J. Verschure
Biomechanical Characterization of Hook-Climber Stems for Soft
Robotic Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
97
Isabella Fiorello, Alessio Mondini, and Barbara Mazzolai
Robotics Application of a Method for Analytically Computing Infinitesimal
Phase Response Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Marshaun N. Fitzpatrick, Yangyang Wang, Peter J. Thomas,
Roger D. Quinn, and Nicholas S. Szczecinski
Machine Morality: From Harm-Avoidance to Human-Robot Cooperation . . . . 116
Ismael T. Freire, Dina Urikh, Xerxes D. Arsiwalla,
and Paul F. M. J. Verschure
Haptic Object Identification for Advanced Manipulation Skills . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Volker Gabler, Korbinian Maier, Satoshi Endo, and Dirk Wollherr
Response of a Neuromechanical Insect Joint Model to Inhibition
of fCO Sensory Afferents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Clarissa Goldsmith, Nicholas S. Szczecinski, and Roger D. Quinn
Distributed Adaptive Control: An Ideal Cognitive Architecture Candidate
for Managing a Robotic Recycling Plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Oscar Guerrero Rosado and Paul F. M. J. Verschure
Standing on the Water: Stability Mechanisms of Snakes on Free Surface . . . . 165
Johann Herault, Étienne Clement, Jonathan Brossillon, Seth LaGrange,
Vincent Lebastard, and Frederic Boyer
From Models of Cognition to Robot Control and Back Using Spiking
Neural Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Stefan Iacob, Johan Kwisthout, and Serge Thill
A Framework for Resolving Motivational Conflict via Attractor Dynamics. . . 192
Alejandro Jimenez-Rodriguez, Tony J. Prescott, Robert Schmidt,
and Stuart Wilson
Insect Inspired View Based Navigation Exploiting Temporal Information. . . . 204
Efstathios Kagioulis, Andrew Philippides, Paul Graham,
James C. Knight, and Thomas Nowotny
xiv
Contents
with 2D Piece-Wise Clothoid Approximation Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
80
Jie Fan, Francesco Visentin, Emanuela Del Dottore,
and Barbara Mazzolai
Cholinergic Control of Chaos and Evidence Sensitivity in a Neocortical
Model of Perceptual Decision-Making . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
92
Adrián F. Amil, Jordi-Ysard Puigbò, and Paul F. M. J. Verschure
Biomechanical Characterization of Hook-Climber Stems for Soft
Robotic Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
97
Isabella Fiorello, Alessio Mondini, and Barbara Mazzolai
Robotics Application of a Method for Analytically Computing Infinitesimal
Phase Response Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Marshaun N. Fitzpatrick, Yangyang Wang, Peter J. Thomas,
Roger D. Quinn, and Nicholas S. Szczecinski
Machine Morality: From Harm-Avoidance to Human-Robot Cooperation . . . . 116
Ismael T. Freire, Dina Urikh, Xerxes D. Arsiwalla,
and Paul F. M. J. Verschure
Haptic Object Identification for Advanced Manipulation Skills . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Volker Gabler, Korbinian Maier, Satoshi Endo, and Dirk Wollherr
Response of a Neuromechanical Insect Joint Model to Inhibition
of fCO Sensory Afferents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Clarissa Goldsmith, Nicholas S. Szczecinski, and Roger D. Quinn
Distributed Adaptive Control: An Ideal Cognitive Architecture Candidate
for Managing a Robotic Recycling Plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Oscar Guerrero Rosado and Paul F. M. J. Verschure
Standing on the Water: Stability Mechanisms of Snakes on Free Surface . . . . 165
Johann Herault, Étienne Clement, Jonathan Brossillon, Seth LaGrange,
Vincent Lebastard, and Frederic Boyer
From Models of Cognition to Robot Control and Back Using Spiking
Neural Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Stefan Iacob, Johan Kwisthout, and Serge Thill
A Framework for Resolving Motivational Conflict via Attractor Dynamics. . . 192
Alejandro Jimenez-Rodriguez, Tony J. Prescott, Robert Schmidt,
and Stuart Wilson
Insect Inspired View Based Navigation Exploiting Temporal Information. . . . 204
Efstathios Kagioulis, Andrew Philippides, Paul Graham,
James C. Knight, and Thomas Nowotny
xiv
Contents