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Recently microstructures are being built on silicon wafers, and they are often called micromachines or microrobots. To make an autonomous microrobot, there are several very difficult problems in supplying power, controlling their behavior, and making microactuators. We propose the use of living materials instead of silicon parts in this paper. A cockroach is used as an experimental material, and the muscles on its hind legs are stimulated by electrical impulses. To calculate the leg movement by electrical stimulation, we create the mathematical model of the muscles. This model provides the displacement of the joint angles of legs and the theoretical walking speed when the muscles are stimulated. A demonstration of a cockroach walking by computer produced electrical stimulation is shown.
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Kuwana, Y., Watanabe, N., Shimoyama, I., Miura, H. (1994). Behavior Control of Insects by Artificial Electrical Stimulation. In: Asama, H., Fukuda, T., Arai, T., Endo, I. (eds) Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68275-2_26
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