Biological Neural Networks in Invertebrate Neuroethology and Robotics. Editors: Randall D. Beer, Roy E. Ritzmann, Thomas McKenna (Academic Press, Inc., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993)

Abstract

This book is the result of a workshop held in the fall of 1991 at the National Academy of Sciences Study Center in Woods Hole, MA. The workshop was entitled "Locomotion Control of Legged Invertebrates" and it was sponsored by the Office of Naval Research. The purpose of the workshop was to bring together researchers studying neural control of sensory and motor systems in invertebrates and researchers building legged robots. This type of cross-discipline work is often beneficial for both groups. Researchers in robotics and artificial intelligence borrow regularly from biological systems. Likewise, researchers studying neurological systems often benefit from computer models of control systems. These models can be controlled and manipulated much more easily than their biological counter-parts.