Discussion and conclusions

Abstract

My original hypothesis was that I could decompose the walking task into a collection of simple concurrent processes with control and knowledge distributed among them. I argued that insect walking had this structure, based on results from researchers studying insect walking. In addition, I argued that this approach was better because it assumed sparse communication, which is easier to analyze and understand, and because it permitted simple programs to express the control algorithms. This chapter will bring the various points of the hypothesis together with those results that support them.

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