Soft materials are not only highly deformable, but they also possess rich and diverse body dynamics. Soft body dynamics exhibit a variety of properties, including nonlinearity, elasticity and potentially infinitely many degrees of freedom. Here, we demonstrate that such soft body dynamics can be employed to conduct certain types of computation. Using body dynamics generated from a soft silicone...

We report measurements of the brain activity of subjects engaged in behavioral exchanges with their environments. We observe brain states which are characterized by coordinated oscillation of populations of neurons that are changing rapidly with the evolution of the meaningful relationship between the subject and its environment, established and maintained by active perception. Sequential spati...

While bipedal walking robots developed recently are based on high-gain servo to planned trajectory, our purpose is to make a robot’s behavior more natural: exploiting useful feature of the dynamics of the body itself. A new concept for controlling humanoid robots, the global dynamics approach is proposed. This is to harness the robot body by applying control input intensively around critical po...

The modeling of the time dependent, dynamic behavior of the human musculoskeletal system results in a large scale mechanical multibody system. This consists of submodels for the skeleton, wobbling masses, muscles and tendons as redundant actuators. Optimization models are required for the simulation of the muscle groups involved in a motion. In contrast to the inverse dynamics simulation the fo...

Abstract In the sport of disc golf, athletes utilize discs with various shapes to achieve their desired throws. Computational methods have potential give further insight into how shape and throw parameters influence trajectory. A methodology is presented that combines computational fluid dynamics obtain aerodynamic coefficients for a given shape, rigid body simulate golf flight. The simulations...