Modeling the Neuromuscular Control System of an Octopus Arm

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Main Authors: Wang, Tixian, Halder, Udit, Gribkova, Ekaterina, Gazzola, Mattia, Mehta, Prashant G.
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Published: 2022
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author Wang, Tixian
Halder, Udit
Gribkova, Ekaterina
Gazzola, Mattia
Mehta, Prashant G.
author_facet Wang, Tixian
Halder, Udit
Gribkova, Ekaterina
Gazzola, Mattia
Mehta, Prashant G.
contents The octopus arm is a neuromechanical system that involves a complex interplay between peripheral nervous system (PNS) and arm musculature. This makes the arm capable of carrying out rich maneuvers. In this paper, we build a model for the PNS and integrate it with a muscular soft octopus arm. The proposed neuromuscular architecture is used to qualitatively reproduce several biophysical observations in real octopuses, including curled rest shapes and target-directed arm reaching motions. Two control laws are proposed for target-oriented arm motions, and their performance is compared against a benchmark. Several analytical results, including rest-state characterization and stability properties of the proposed control laws, are provided.
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spellingShingle Modeling the Neuromuscular Control System of an Octopus Arm
Wang, Tixian
Halder, Udit
Gribkova, Ekaterina
Gazzola, Mattia
Mehta, Prashant G.
Systems and Control
Robotics
Biological Physics
The octopus arm is a neuromechanical system that involves a complex interplay between peripheral nervous system (PNS) and arm musculature. This makes the arm capable of carrying out rich maneuvers. In this paper, we build a model for the PNS and integrate it with a muscular soft octopus arm. The proposed neuromuscular architecture is used to qualitatively reproduce several biophysical observations in real octopuses, including curled rest shapes and target-directed arm reaching motions. Two control laws are proposed for target-oriented arm motions, and their performance is compared against a benchmark. Several analytical results, including rest-state characterization and stability properties of the proposed control laws, are provided.
title Modeling the Neuromuscular Control System of an Octopus Arm
topic Systems and Control
Robotics
Biological Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.06767