Beyond Body Shape and Brain: Evolving the Sensory Apparatus of Voxel-Based Soft Robots

2021 ◽  
pp. 210-226
Author(s):  
Andrea Ferigo ◽  
Giovanni Iacca ◽  
Eric Medvet
Keyword(s):  
Body Shape ◽  
Soft Robots ◽  
Sensory Apparatus

Growing and Evolving Soft Robots

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Rieffel ◽  
Davis Knox ◽  
Schuyler Smith ◽  
Barry Trimmer
Keyword(s):  
Material Properties ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Seed Structure ◽  
Soft Body ◽  
Soft Robots ◽  
Body Shapes ◽  
And Control ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Degree Of Coupling

Completely soft and flexible robots offer to revolutionize fields ranging from search and rescue to endoscopic surgery. One of the outstanding challenges in this burgeoning field is the chicken-and-egg problem of body-brain design: Development of locomotion requires the preexistence of a locomotion-capable body, and development of a location-capable body requires the preexistence of a locomotive gait. This problem is compounded by the high degree of coupling between the material properties of a soft body (such as stiffness or damping coefficients) and the effectiveness of a gait. This article synthesizes four years of research into soft robotics, in particular describing three approaches to the co-discovery of soft robot morphology and control. In the first, muscle placement and firing patterns are coevolved for a fixed body shape with fixed material properties. In the second, the material properties of a simulated soft body coevolve alongside locomotive gaits, with body shape and muscle placement fixed. In the third, a developmental encoding is used to scalably grow elaborate soft body shapes from a small seed structure. Considerations of the simulation time and the challenges of physically implementing soft robots in the real world are discussed.

Optimizing the Sensory Apparatus of Voxel-Based Soft Robots Through Evolution and Babbling

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Ferigo ◽  
Eric Medvet ◽  
Giovanni Iacca
Keyword(s):  
Soft Robots ◽  
Sensory Apparatus

Study on the Differences in the Results of Body Shape Test According to the Position of the Two Feet and the Usefulness of the Neck and Body Motion Image Test

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-26
Author(s):  
Wan Song Chang ◽  
◽  
Song Ja Kim ◽  
Seo Won Ryu ◽  
Duk Joon Lim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Shape ◽  
Body Motion ◽  
Image Test

BODY-SHAPE PERCEPTIONS IN OLDER ADULTS AND MOTIVATIONS FOR EXERCISE

2004 ◽  
Vol 98 (4) ◽  
pp. 1251 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETRA B. SCHULER
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Body Shape

TUNGAU PADA DAUN MANGGA (Mangifera Indica)

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rawati Panjaitan
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Direct Observation ◽  
Host Plants ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
Leaf Surface ◽  
Mangifera Indica ◽  
Posterior Part ◽  
Mango Leaves

Mites have hostplant specifications or host plants. Mites can be destructive and deadly of which is the host plants a mango crop. Mites on mango crops will cause the leaves yellow and fall off prematurely. This is will lead to the disruption of the productivity of mango. It is necessary for research to identify the mites that infect the mango crop. The method is carried out by direct observation. Mites were taken from the surface of mango leaves later in preservation with several levels of concentration of alcohol, and polyvinyl laktofenol. Then, observed under a microscope and documented for identification purposes. Mites on the leaf surface of manalagi mango (<em>Mangifera indica</em>) found two species, it is <em>Oligonychus</em> sp. and <em>Oligonychus ilicis</em> (Family: Tetranychidae, Superfamily: Tetranychoidea). <em>Oligonychus</em> sp. hallmark is rounded body shape like a spider, with a body is transparent and there are two long seta on posterior part. While <em>Oligonychus ilicis</em> has a characteristic elongated rounded body shape, red, and there is a short posterior seta. <em>Oligonychus</em> sp. and <em>Oligonychus ilicis</em> live as parasites on the surface of mango leaves that can lead to wrinkled leaves, yellow and to fall. <em>Oligonychus</em> life cycle starts from the eggs develop into Nympha and then adult.

Penurunan Body Dissatisfaction Pada Perempuan Dalam Masa Emerging Adulthood Dengan Gratitude Intervention

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aliffia Ananta
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Positive Result ◽  
Body Dissatisfaction ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Experimental Methods ◽  
Gratitude Intervention ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Need For Support ◽  
Ideal Body

This study aims to reduce body dissatisfaction in women in the period of emerging adulthood with gratitude intervention. Subjects of this study consisted of two people experiencing body dissatisfaction. This study used a quasi-experimental methods. Data making assessment conducted by interview, observation, body shape questionnaire, and gratitude questionnaire. Statistically the result showed that there is no gratitude intervention can not reduce body dissatisfaction (p= 0,180 > 0,05), but descriptive analysis showed that gratitude intervention gave positive result by reducing body dissatisfaction. The characteristic of body dissatisfaction are not confidence, never satisfied with their body, comparing their self to others who has more ideal body, sensitive, have a need for support and happy to get a compliment.Keywords : body dissatisfaction, gratitude intervention

Updating long-held assumptions about fat stigma: For women, body shape plays a critical role

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaimie Krems ◽  
Steven L. Neuberg
Keyword(s):  
Body Shape ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
The Body ◽  
Theoretical Assumption ◽  
Obesity Stigma ◽  
Obese Female ◽  
Three Samples ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
Fat Stigma

Heavier bodies—particularly female bodies—are stigmatized. Such fat stigma is pervasive, painful to experience, and may even facilitate weight gain, thereby perpetuating the obesity-stigma cycle. Leveraging research on functionally distinct forms of fat (deposited on different parts of the body), we propose that body shape plays an important but largely underappreciated role in fat stigma, above and beyond fat amount. Across three samples varying in participant ethnicity (White and Black Americans) and nation (U.S., India), patterns of fat stigma reveal that, as hypothesized, participants differently stigmatized equally-overweight or -obese female targets as a function of target shape, sometimes even more strongly stigmatizing targets with less rather than more body mass. Such findings suggest value in updating our understanding of fat stigma to include body shape and in querying a predominating, but often implicit, theoretical assumption that people simply view all fat as bad (and more fat as worse).

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