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Discovering the secrets of animal movement and what they can teach usInsects walk on water, snakes slither, and fish swim. Animals move with astounding grace, speed, and versatility: how do they do it, and what can we learn from them? In How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls, David Hu takes readers on an accessible, wondrous journey into the world of animal motion. From basement labs at MIT to the rain forests of Panama, Hu shows how animals have adapted and evolved to traverse their environments, taking advantage of physical laws with results that are startling and ingenious. In turn, the latest discoveries about animal mechanics are inspiring scientists to invent robots and devices that move with similar elegance and efficiency.Hu follows scientists as they investigate a multitude of animal movements, from the undulations of sandfish and the way that dogs shake off water in fractions of a second to the seemingly crash-resistant characteristics of insect flight. Not limiting his exploration to individual organisms, Hu describes the ways animals enact swarm intelligence, such as when army ants cooperate and link their bodies to create bridges that span ravines. He also looks at what scientists learn from nature's unexpected feats-such as snakes that fly, mosquitoes that survive rainstorms, and dead fish that swim upstream. As researchers better understand such issues as energy, flexibility, and water repellency in animal movement, they are applying this knowledge to the development of cutting-edge technology.Integrating biology, engineering, physics, and robotics, How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls demystifies the remarkable mechanics behind animal locomotion.

Animal mechanics. --- Bionics. --- Robotics. --- Mécanique animale. --- Bionique. --- Robotique. --- Animal mechanics --- Robots --- Robotics --- Design and construction --- Robots - Design and construction --- Mécanique animale. --- Design and construction.

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Biomechanics and Motor Control: Defining Central Concepts' provides a thorough update to the rapidly evolving fields of biomechanics of human motion and motor control with research published in biology, psychology, physics, medicine, physical therapy, robotics, and engineering consistently breaking new ground. This book clarifies the meaning of the most frequently used terms, and consists of four parts, with part one covering biomechanical concepts, including joint torques, stiffness and stiffness-like measures, viscosity, damping and impedance, and mechanical work and energy. Other sections deal with neurophysiological concepts used in motor control, such as muscle tone, reflex, pre-programmed reactions, efferent copy, and central pattern generator, and central motor control concepts, including redundancy and abundance, synergy, equilibrium-point hypothesis, and motor program, and posture and prehension from the field of motor behavior. The book is organized to cover smaller concepts within the context of larger concepts. For example, internal models are covered in the chapter on motor programs.

Human mechanics. --- Kinesiology. --- Cinesiology --- Human mechanics --- Motor ability --- Body mechanics, Human --- Human biomechanics --- Human movements --- Movements, Human --- Animal mechanics --- Human physiology --- Physical anthropology --- Kinesiology

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612.76 --- Locomotion. Principles of animal mechanics. Biomedical engineering --- biomechanica --- skelet (geneeskunde) --- kinesitherapie --- bewegingsenergie --- spierstelsel --- Musculoskeletal system. --- General biophysics --- bewegingsapparaat --- Physiology: movement organs, voice and skin --- Biomechanics.

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Cornea. --- Human mechanics. --- Body mechanics, Human --- Human biomechanics --- Human movements --- Movements, Human --- Animal mechanics --- Human physiology --- Physical anthropology --- Kinesiology --- Anterior segment (Eye)

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Muscle : the motor for animal movement, walking and running, jumping, climbing, and crawling, gliding and soaring, flapping flight, floating, swimming, small-scale locomotion

Animal physiology. Animal biophysics --- Locomotion --- Animal locomotion. --- Locomotion animale --- Animals --- Animal locomotion --- Physiology. --- Surgery --- Orthopedics, traumatology --- Orthopedics, traumatology. --- Animal running --- Animal walking --- Running, Animal --- Walking, Animal --- Animal mechanics --- Locomotion.