Due to its detrimental effect on cow welfare, health and production, lameness in dairy cows has received quite a lot of attention in the last few decades-not only in terms of prevention and treatment of lameness but also in terms of detection, as early treatment might decrease the number of severely lame cows in the herds as well as decrease the direct and indirect costs associated with lamenes...

Behavioral characteristics closely associated with specific physiological profiles present an important area of research in understanding health disparities. In particular, glucocorticoid overproduction may be an important factor moderating disease progression; natural variance in production of this steroid has been proposed as one mechanism underlying individual differences in health and disea...

The relationship between biomechanical action and perception of self-motion during walking is typically consistent and well-learned but also adaptable. This perceptual-motor coupling can be recalibrated by creating a mismatch between the visual information for self-motion and walking speed. Perceptual-motor recalibration of locomotion has been demonstrated through effects on subsequent walking ...

During locomotion, leg movements define the direction of walking (forward or backward) and path one is taking (straight curved). These aspects locomotion produce characteristic visual motion patterns during movement. Here, we tested whether cortical regions responding to either egomotion-compatible motion, movements, both, are sensitive these locomotion-relevant motion. We compared a curved (ty...

Bioinspired Robots In article number 2206336, Qinyan Zhou, Jian Xu, and Hongbin Fang pioneer a neurobiologically inspired control architecture for earthworm-like robotic in-pipe locomotion. The distributed oscillators serve as mapping between earthworm neural oscillations segment deformations, the collective dynamics of oscillator network is exploited to achieve complex gait patterns better loc...

Behavioral assays are commonly used for the assessment of sensorimotor impairment in the central nervous system (CNS). The most sophisticated methods for quantifying locomotor deficits in rodents is to measure minute disturbances of unconstrained gait overground (e.g., manual BBB score or automated CatWalk). However, cortical inputs are not required for the generation of basic locomotion produc...

With the marriage of biomimetics and robotics, there has been a new revolution in structure design and selection of gaits of robot, and thus the field of robotic application was broadly enlarged. Crawling robot as one type of biological inspired robot has been studied in the last forty years (Hirose, 1993). The main characteristics of the crawling robot is that it has low gravity center, narrow...

The objective of this study was to determine the influence of weekly locomotion scoring and, thus, early detection and treatment of lame cows by a veterinarian on lameness prevalence, incidence, duration of lameness, fertility and milk yield on one dairy farm in Northern Germany. Cows were distributed to two groups. Cows in Group A (n = 99) with a locomotion score (LS) > 1 were examined and tre...

The behavior of a robot is emerged from the interaction between body, control, and environmental dynamics. The research group B–3 aims to design body and control dynamics for emerging adaptive locomotion. We investigate three types of locomotion, biped, quadruped, and snake-like and developed robots. We also discuss on the lower control architecture for realizing reactive adaptive locomotion.