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Subject: Re: bug locomotion (was RE: ....)
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Mark Hosang Yim (mark@killdeer.Stanford.EDU) wrote:

: There is actually a large amount of research on animal locomotion
: including spiders cockroaches centipedes earthworms etc.  Probably the
: most famous is the work of James Gray. "Animal Locomotion" (c) 1968 W.
: W. Norton & Co.  Another interesting researcher is Knut
: Schmidt-Nielson at Purdue (I think). More recent work has been done by
: Robert Full at Berkeley.


Also see recent publications by Randall Beer, who is building robot models 
based strictly on the types of locomotion actually found in insects.  He 
presented a paper on this in Dec. 1993 at the Entomological Society of 
America meetings in Indianapolis.

Lou Bjostad
LBJOSTAD@ceres.agsci.colostate.edu






