2A1-G01 原形質量保存則を活用したアメーバ様ロボットの実機開発(フレキシブルロボット・メカニズム)

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The control and mechanical systems of an embodied agent should be tightly coupled so as to emerge useful functionalities such as adaptivity. This indicates that the mechanical system as well as the control system should be responsible for a certain amount of computation for generating the behavior. However, there still leaves much to be understood about how such "computational offloading" from the control system to the mechanical system can be achieved. In order to intensively investigate this, here we particularly focus on the "softness" of the body, and show how the computational offloading derived from this property is exploited to simplify the control system and to increase the degree of adaptivity. To this end, we employ a two-dimensional amoeboid robot as a practical example, consisting of incompressive fluid (i.e. protoplasm) covered with an outer skin composed of a network of real-time tunable springs. In this paper, we introduce a prototype of the amoeboid robot we have developed.
一般社団法人日本機械学会の論文
2008-06-06