A behaviour-based robot is a purposeful and robust machine that operates in, and directly interacts with the environment. The design of a behavior-based robot bounds uncertainty of the real world local to a given task-achieving behavior. Each behavior has a known competence for robust and reliable operation in a specific real world context. Task-achieving behaviors collectively interact via the surrounding environment to produce the purposeful behavior. This paper describes a very small, legged robotic system, called herein the Mars Micro-Rover, to serve as a testbed to evaluate the performance potential of small legged robotic systems and their control architectures. A simple, biologically-inspired oscillatory network controls gait modulation based on environmental influences. A recurrent cyclic inhibition is chosen to generate a four-phasic pattern for Micro-Rover locomotion.
Design of a behavior-based micro-rover robot
Entwurf eines auf dem menschlichen Verhalten basierenden, mobilen Kleinroboters
Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, 1992 ; 280-287
1992
8 Seiten, 5 Bilder, 16 Quellen
Conference paper
English
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