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From: pplante@netcom.com (P. Plantec)
Subject: Re: bug locomotion (was RE: ....)
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lbjostad@ops.agsci.colostate.edu wrote:
: 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

Mark, 
	Disney also did a great deal of original work on spider and 
animal locomotion and muscualr movement.   I just didn't want to give the 
kid an easy out.  Boy I miss Colorado...moved to LA from Aspen...wrong 
direction!



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