A docente do Departamento de Matemática (DMA) e investigadora no Laboratório de Engenharia Matemática (LEMA), Carla Pinto, participa no Encontro no Douro: Equações Diferenciais e Aplicações, que se realiza entre 2-4 de Outubro, em Armamar.

A presença de Carla Pinto nesta conferência serve para apresentar a comunicação “ODEs and CPG Models for Locomotion”

“We review CPG models for locomotion. CPGs are commonly modelled by coupled cell systems, where each cell models one neuron, or more plausible, collections of neurons.
CPG-like coupled cell systems are able to produce sustained rhythmic activation patterns even when isolated from external stimuli. CPGs have other nice properties, such as limit cycle behaviour, phase-locking modes, robustness against small perturbations and smooth online modulation of trajectories. All these characteristics can be achieved through changes in parameter values of the equations. These features make CPGs an attractive option to model the control of legged robot locomotion for bipedal, quadruped and other designs”.

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