Code
BOF/24J/2021/372
Duration
01 October 2021 → 30 September 2025
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Machine learning and decision making
- Animal morphology, anatomy and physiology
- Phylogeny and comparative analysis
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Engineering and technology
- Human-centered and life-like robotics
- Robot structures
Keywords
Evolutionary morphology
seahorses
robot control
automatization
biomimetics
Project description
In this project we study the evolutionary adaptive nature of the seahorse tail by means of a robotic manipulator design process. The project relies on the co-learned embodiment and control by means of differentiable programming, starting from the morphology of a seahorse. By developing a parameterised, biomechanical model, this will lead to a versatile robotic manipulator that gives us a platform to test hypotheses on adaptive evolution in biology.