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    Poster
    Presenter(s)
    Elishai Ezra Tsur Headshot
    Display Name
    Elishai Ezra Tsur
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Open University of Israel
    Country
    Country
    Israel
    Author(s)
    Display Name
    Michael Ehrlich
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Open University of Israel
    Display Name
    Elishai Ezra Tsur
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Open University of Israel
    Abstract

    In the past few decades, bioinspired hexapod walking robots have attracted increasing attention, mainly due to their potential to efficiently traverse rough terrains. Recently, neuromorphic (brain-inspired) robotic control has been shown to outperform conventional control paradigm in stochastic environments. In this work, we propose a neuromorphic adaptive body leveling algorithm for a hexapod walking robot during transversal over multi-leveled terrain. We demonstrate adaptive control with distributed accelerator-driven neuro-integrators with only a few thousand spiking neurons. We further propose a framework for the integration of MuJoCo, a modeling environment, and Nengo, a spiking neural networks compiler for efficient evaluation of neuromorphic control over high degrees of freedom robotic systems in realistic physics driven scenarios.