Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems

This book constitutes the proceedings of the )th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Living Machines 2020, held in Freiburg, Germany, in July 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 32 full and 7 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. They deal with research on novel life-like technologies inspired by the scientific investigation of biological systems, biomimetics, and research that seeks to interface biological and artificial systems to create biohybrid systems.

Inhalt
Improving recall in an associative neural network model of the hippocampus.- Iterative Learning Control as a Framework for Human-Inspired Control with Bio-Mimetic Actuators.- Efficient fine-grained object detection for robot-assisted WEEE disassembly.- Integrated Topological Planning and Scheduling for Orchestrating Large Human-Robot Collaborative Teams.- Programming Material Intelligence: An Additive Fabrication Strategy for Self-Shaping Biohybrid Components.- Multi-material 3D-printer for rapid prototyping of bio-inspired soft robotic elements.- Kinematic and Kinetic Analysis of a Biomechanical Model of Rat Hind Limb with Biarticular Muscle.- How to reduce computation time while sparing performance during robot navigation? A neuro-inspired architecture for autonomous shifting between model-based and model-free learning.- An Image-based Method for the Morphological Analysis of Tendrils with 2D Piece-wise Clothoid Approximation Model.- Cholinergic control of chaos and evidence sensitivity in a neocortical model of perceptual decision-making.- Biomechanical Characterization of Hook-Climber Stems for Soft Robotic Applications.- Machine Morality. From Harm Avoidance to Human-Robot Cooperation. Haptic Object Identification for Advanced Manipulation Skills.- Distributed Adaptive Control: An ideal Cognitive Ar-chitecture candidate for managing a robotic recycling plant.- Standing on the water: stability mechanisms of snakes on free surface.- From models of cognition to robot control and back using spiking neural networks.- A framework for resolving motivational conflict via attractor dynamics.- Insect inspired view based navigation exploiting temporal information.- Split-belt Adaptation Model of a Decerebrate Cat Using a Quadruped Robot with Learning.- Biohybrid wind energy generators based on living plants.- Snapshot Navigation In The Wavelet Domain.- Bioinspired Navigation Based on Distributed Sensing in the Leech.- A plausible mechanism for Drosophila Larvaintermittent behaviour.- Robophysical modeling of bilaterally activated and soft limbless locomotors.- Fast Reverse Replays of Recent Spatiotemporal Trajectories in a Robotic Hippocampal Model.- Using Animatlab for Neuromechanical Analysis: Linear Hill Parameter Calculation.- Spatio-temporal Memory for Navigation in a Mushroom Body Model.