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  • Robotics and Neuroscience
  • Biomimicry and Biomechanics

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  • Rectilinear crawling is a fundamental locomotion method in soft-bodied organisms.
  • Coordinated body contractions and environmental friction are key to this movement.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To model neuromechanical coordination in soft-bodied crawlers.
  • To explore biologically and technologically relevant iterative learning processes.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a reinforcement learning algorithm on a segmented, soft-bodied crawler model.
  • Investigated the convergence of neural coupling from all-to-all to nearest-neighbor.

Main Results:

  • The model developed nearest-neighbor neural wiring for forward locomotion.
  • Achieved a localized contraction wave similar to Drosophila larvae and biomimetic robots.
  • Demonstrated a trade-off between speed and robustness to noise based on gait regularization.

Conclusions:

  • Learning schemes can embed the brain-body-environment interaction for locomotion.
  • Findings are relevant for soft robotics and understanding locomotion evolution and development.