A self organization approach to goal-directed multimodal locomotion based on attractor selection mechanism

Yongjae Kim, Surya Girinatha Nurzaman, Fumiya Iida, Edwardo F Fukushima

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Abstract

The realization and utilization of multimodal locomotion to enable robots to accomplish useful tasks is a significantly challenging problem in robotics. Related to the challenge, it is crucial to notice that the locomotion dynamics of the robots is a result of interactions between a particular control structure and its body-environment dynamics. From this perspective, this paper presents a simple control structure known as Attractor Selection Mechanism that enables a robot to self organize its multiple locomotion modes for accomplishing a goal-directed locomotion task. Despite the simplicity, the approach enables the robot to automatically explore different body-environment dynamics and stabilize onto particular attractors which corresponds to locomotion modes relevant to accomplish the task. The robot used throughout the paper is a curved-beam hopping robot, which despite its simple actuation method, possesses rich and complex body-environment dynamics.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceeding of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2015)
EditorsAllison Okamura
Place of PublicationNew Jersey USA
PublisherIEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages5061 - 5066
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9781479969241
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
EventIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2015 - Seattle, United States of America
Duration: 26 May 201530 May 2015
http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/ras/conf/FullySponsored/ICRA/2015/icra2015.org/index.html
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/7128761/proceeding (Proceedings)

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ConferenceIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2015
Abbreviated titleICRA 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States of America
CitySeattle
Period26/05/1530/05/15
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