Authors
Zu Soh, Michiyo Suzuki, Toshio Tsuji
Corresponding Author
Zu Soh
Available Online 1 June 2017.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.2017.4.1.8How to use a DOI?
Keywords
<i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i>, frictional force, dynamics model, video analysis, locomotion
Abstract
Caenorhabditis elegans is a small worm which is approximately 1 mm in length. The present study proposes an estimation method for frictional force using locomotion information obtained from video analysis of actual worms. The results indicate that the body model driven by the estimated frictional force can trace the locomotion of the worm within a low error level of 4% of the body length. The proposed method can be applied to analyze the relationship between friction and gait control.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by ALife Robotics Corp. Ltd.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).