Adaptive control for insect leg position: Controller properties depend on substrate compliance

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 190, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 983-991

  Cruse, H ^a   Kuhn S ^a   Park, S ^a   Schmitz, J ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive control; Compliance; Femur tibia joint; Leg position; Stick insect

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); DENERVATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; HISTOLOGY; INNERVATION; INSECT; JOINT; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPRIOCEPTION; REACTION TIME; STIMULATION; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPLIANCE; DENERVATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; INSECTS; JOINTS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; REACTION TIME; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 11844298493     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-004-0555-y     Document Type: Article

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