Preparing to move: Setting initial conditions to simplify interactions with complex objects

• Rashida Nayeem ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nayeem.r@northeastern.edu

  Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6749-5077

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• Salah Bazzi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Institute for Experiential Robotics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8631-0426

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• Mohsen Sadeghi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2573-146X

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• Neville Hogan,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5366-2145

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• Dagmar Sternad

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Institute for Experiential Robotics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9318-2920

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