Abstract
AbstractThe octopus coordinates multiple, highly flexible arms with the support of a complex distributed nervous system. The octopus’s suckers, staggered along each arm, are employed in a wide range of behaviors. Many of these behaviors, such as foraging in visually occluded spaces, are executed under conditions of limited or absent visual feedback. In coordinating unseen limbs with seemingly infinite degrees of freedom across a variety of adaptive behaviors, the octopus appears to have solved a significant control problem facing the field of soft-bodied robotics. To study the strategies that the octopus uses to find and capture prey within unseen spaces, we designed and 3D printed visually occluded foraging tasks and tracked arm motion as the octopus attempted to find and retrieve a food reward. By varying the location of the food reward within these tasks, we can characterize how the arms and suckers adapt to their environment to find and capture prey. We compared these results to simulated experimental conditions performed by a model octopus arm to isolate the primary mechanisms driving our experimental observations. We found that the octopus relies on a contact-based search strategy that emerges from local sucker coordination to simplify the control of its soft, highly flexible limbs.
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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