
Neural Preprocessing and Control of Reactive Walking Machines
Towards Versatile Artificial Perception-Action Systems
Poramate Manoonpong(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 15. May 2007
Book
Hardback
XVI, 187 pages
978-3-540-68802-0 (ISBN)
Description
Biologically inspired walking machines are fascinating objects to study, from thepointofviewoftheirmechatronicaldesignaswellastherealisationofc- trol concepts. Research on this subject takes its place in a rapidly growing, highly interdisciplinary ?eld, uniting contributions from areas as diverse as biology, biomechanics, material science, neuroscience, engineering, and c- puter science. Nature has found fascinating solutions for the problem of legged loco- tion, and the mechanisms generating the complex motion patterns performed by animals are still not very well understood. Natural movements provide the impressionofeleganceandsmoothness,whereastheimitationoftheirarti?cial analogues still looks rather clumsy. The diverse research on arti?cial legged locomotion mainly concentrated on the mechanical design and on pure movement control of these machines; i.e., in general these machines were unable to perceive their environment and reactappropriately.Contributionsdevelopingembodiedcontroltechniquesfor sensor-driven behaviors are rare, and if considered, they deal only with one type of behavior; naturally, this is most often an obstacle avoidance behavior. There are only a few approaches devoted to the multimodal generation of several reactive behaviors. This book presents a pioneering approach to tackle this challenging pr- lem. Inspired by the obstacle avoidance and escape behaviors of cockroaches and scorpions, which here are understood as negative tropisms, and by the prey-capturing behavior of spiders, taken as a positive tropism, corresponding sensors and neural control modules are introduced in such a way that wa- ing machines can sense and react to environmental stimuli in an animal-like fashion.
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Edition
2007 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
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XVI, 187 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
477 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-68802-0 (9783540688020)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-68803-7
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Content
Biologically Inspired Perception-Action Systems.- Neural Concepts and Modeling.- Physical Sensors and Walking Machine Platforms.- Artificial Perception-Action Systems.- Performance of Artificial Perception-Action Systems.- Conclusions.