Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems Third International Conference, Living Machines 2014, Milan, Italy, July 30--August 1, 2014, Proceedings

Monolithic Design and Fabrication of a 2-DOF Bio-Inspired Leg Transmission.- Optimization of the Anticipatory Reflexes of a Computational Model of the Cerebellum.- Evolving Optimal Swimming in Different Fluids: A Study Inspired by batoid Fishes.- Bipedal Walking of an Octopus-Inspired Robot.- Action Selection within Short Time Windows.- Modelling Legged Robot Multi-Body Dynamics Using Hierarchical Virtual Prototype Design.- How Cockroaches Employ Wall-Following for Exploration.- Machines Learning - Towards a New Synthetic Autobiographical Memory.- A Phase-Shifting Double-Wheg-Module for Realization of Wheg-Driven Robots.- Design Principles for Cooperative Robots with Uncertainty-Aware and Resource-Wise Adaptive Behavior.- Insect-Inspired Tactile Contour Sampling Using Vibration-Based Robotic Antennae.- A Predictive Model for Closed-Loop Collision Avoidance in a Fly-Robotic Interface.- Neuromechanical Simulation of an Inter-leg Controller for Tetrapod Coordination.- A Minimum Attention Control Law for Ball Catching.- Simulated Neural Dynamics Produces Adaptive Stepping and Stable Transitions in a Robotic Leg.- Blending in with the Shoal: Robotic Fish Swarms for Investigating Strategies of Group Formation in Guppies.- Capturing Stochastic Insect Movements with Liquid State Machines.- Acquisition of Synergistic Motor Responses through Cerebellar Learning in a Robotic Postural Task.- I-CLIPS Brain: A Hybrid Cognitive System for Social Robots.- Change of Network Dynamics in a Neuro-robotic System.- Enhanced Locomotion of a Spherical Robot Based on the Sea-urchin Characteristics.- Design of a Control Architecture for Habit Learning in Robots.- Dynamic Model of a Jet-Propelled Soft Robot Inspired by the Octopus Mantle.- Hippocampal Based Model Reveals the Distinct Roles of Dentate Gyrus and CA3 during Robotic Spatial Navigation.- Trajectory Control Strategy for Anthropomorphic Robotic Finger.- Neuromechanical Mantis Model Replicates Animal Postures via Biological Neural Models.- A Natural Movement Database for Management, Documentation, Visualization, Mining and Modeling of Locomotion Experiments.- Benchmarking Human-Like Posture and Locomotion of Humanoid Robots: A Preliminary Scheme.- The Influence of Behavioral Complexity on Robot Perception.- Design and Control of a Tunable Compliance Actuator.- An Experimental Eye-Tracking Study for the Design of a Context-Dependent Social Robot Blinking Model.- Motor Learning and Body Size within an Insect Brain Computational Model.- Effects of Gaze Synchronization in Human-Robot Interaction.- Individual Differences and Biohybrid Societies.- Programming Living Machines: The Case Study of Escherichia Coli.- Force Contribution of Single Leg Joints in a Walking Hexapod.- High Resolution Tactile Sensors for Curved Robotic Fingertips.- Adhesive Stress Distribution Measurement on a Gecko.- Design of an Articulation Mechanism for an Infant-like Vocal Robot “Lingua”.- Optimising Robot Personalities for Symbiotic Interaction.- A Bio-inspired Wing Driver for the Study of Insect-Scale Flight Aerodynamics.- Characterizing the Substrate Contact of Carpal Vibrissae of Rats during Locomotion.- Self-organization of a Joint of Cardiomyocyte-Driven Robot.- Development of an Insect Size Micro Jumping Robot.- Soil Mechanical Impedance Discrimination by a Soft Tactile Sensor for a Bioinspired Robotic Root.- Fetusoid35: A Robot Research Platform for Neural Development of Both Fetuses and Preterm Infants and for Developmental Care.- High Speed Switched, Multi-channel Drive for High Voltage Dielectric Actuation of a Biomimetic Sensory Array.- A Combined CPG-Stretch Reflex Study on a Musculoskeletal Pneumatic Quadruped.- Swimming Locomotion of Xenopus Laevis Robot.- Empathy in Humanoid Robots.- HECTOR, A Bio-Inspired and Compliant Hexapod Robot.- Gesture Recognition Using Temporal Population Coding and a Conceptual Space.- Roving Robots Gain from an Orientation Algorithm of Fruit Flies and Predict a FlyDecision-Making Algorithm.- The Si elegans Project – The Challenges and Prospects of Emulating Caenorhabditis elegans.- A Self-organising Animat Body Map.- A Novel Bio-inspired Tactile Tumour Detection Concept for Capsule Endoscopy.- Electro-communicating Dummy Fish Initiate Group Behavior in the Weakly Electric Fish Mormyrus rume.- A Concept of Exoskeleton Mechanism for Skill Enhancement.