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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2010, Article ID 107538, 16 pages doi:10.1155/2010/107538 Research Article Biologically Inspired Robotic Arm Control Using an Artificial Neural Oscillator Woosung Yang,1 Jaesung Kwon,1 Nak Young Chong,2 and Yonghwan Oh1 1 Center for Cognitive Robotics Research, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 131, Cheongryang, Seoul 130-650, South Korea 2 School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan Correspondence should be addressed to Woosung Yang, dreamrize@ Received 2 August 2009; Accepted 29 December 2009 Academic Editor: Stefano Lenci Copyright q 2010 Woosung Yang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We address a neural-oscillator-based control scheme to achieve biologically inspired motion generation. In general, it is known that humans or animals exhibit novel adaptive behaviors regardless of their kinematic configurations against unexpected disturbances or environment changes. This is caused by the entrainment property of the neural oscillator which plays a key role to adapt their nervous system to the natural frequency of the interacted environments. Thus we focus on a self-adapting robot arm control to attain natural adaptive motions as a controller employing neural oscillators. To demonstrate the excellence of entrainment, we implement the proposed control scheme to a single pendulum coupled with the neural oscillator in simulation