Evolutionary Robotic Approaches in Primate Gait Analysis

摘要: Understanding how primates move is particularly challenging because many of the experimentation techniques that would normally be available are unsuitable for ethical and conservation reasons. We therefore need to develop can maximize data from minimally intrusive experimentation. One approach achieving this use evolutionary robotic build a musculoskeletal simulation generate movement patterns optimize some global parameter such as economy or performance, match existing kinematic data. If has sufficiently high biofidelity experimentally measured performance criteria then we it predict aspects locomotor mechanics otherwise impossible measure. This valuable when studying fossil based entirely on morphology movements spontaneously. A major question in human evolution origin bipedal running role elastic energy storage. By using an robotics model humanoid show storage required efficient, high-performance running. Elasticity allows both recovery minimize total cost also power amplification allow performance. The most important store hind limb Achilles tendon: feature at best weakly expressed among African great apes. simulations with without structure demonstrate its importance, suggest identification presence tendon—perhaps by calcaneal Sharpey’s fibers—is essential identifying where record style originated.