In this paper we investigate a biological framework to generate and adapt a motion pattern so that can be energy efficient. In fact, the motion pattern in legged animals and human emerges among interaction between a central pattern generator neural network called CPG and the musculoskeletal system. Here, we model this neuro - musculoskeletal system by means of a leg - like mechanical system cal...

We study the dissipative dynamics of a harmonic oscillator which couples linearly through its position and its momentum to two independent heat baths at the same temperature. We argue that this model describes a large spin in a ferromagnet. We find that some effects of the two heat baths partially cancel each other. This leads to unexpected features such as underdamped oscillations in the stron...

I describe a simple on-line tempo tracker, based on phase and period locking a single oscillator to performance event timings. The tracker parameters are optimized on a corpus of solo piano performances by twelve musicians. The tracker is then tested on a second corpus of performances, played by the same twelve musicians. The performance of this tracker is compared to previously published resul...

Realizing the promise of quantum information processing remains a daunting task given omnipresence noise and error. Adapting noise-resilient classical computing modalities to mechanics may be viable path towards near-term applications in noisy intermediate-scale era. Here, we propose continuous variable reservoir single nonlinear oscillator. Through numerical simulation our model demonstrate qu...

We tested predictions of a computational model (Hill et al., 2002) of the leech heartbeat timing network. The timing network consists of two segmental oscillators located in the third (G3) and fourth (G4) segmental ganglia. Each oscillator consists of two reciprocally inhibitory oscillator interneurons along with the coordinating interneuron fibers that link them. In the model, the network was ...