The goal of this multidisciplinary research project is to develop a CyberOctopus with similar level of complexity as a real octopus in both its soft body and decision-making. The questions that drive my research are: How do octopuses efficiently control their extremely flexible arms? What are the lessons for soft robotics?
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The goal of this research thrust is to study natural collectives and to solve associated control problems in engineering. Ranging from fish schools to bird flocks, collective behavior occurs abundantly in nature. The driving question of this work was how local interactions between individual agents in a collective give rise to group level cohesion and synchrony.
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