TY - GEN
T1 - A true-slime-mold-inspired fluid-filled robot exhibiting versatile behavior
AU - Umedachi, Takuya
AU - Idei, Ryo
AU - Ishiguro, Akio
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Behavioral diversity is one essential feature of living systems in order to exhibit adaptive behavior in hostile and dynamically changing environments. However, classical engineering approaches strive to avoid the behavioral diversity of artificial systems to achieve high performance in specific environments for given tasks. The goals of this research include understanding how living systems exhibit behavioral diversity and use these findings to build robots that exhibit truly adaptive behaviors. To this end, we have focused on an amoeba-like unicellular organism, i.e., the plasmodium of true slime mold. Despite the absence of a central nervous system, the plasmodium exhibits versatile spatiotemporal oscillatory patterns and switches spontaneously between the patterns. Inspired by this, we build a real physical robot that exhibits versatile oscillatory patterns and spontaneous transition between the patterns. The results are expected to shed new light on the design scheme for life-like robots that exhibit amazingly versatile and adaptive behavior.
AB - Behavioral diversity is one essential feature of living systems in order to exhibit adaptive behavior in hostile and dynamically changing environments. However, classical engineering approaches strive to avoid the behavioral diversity of artificial systems to achieve high performance in specific environments for given tasks. The goals of this research include understanding how living systems exhibit behavioral diversity and use these findings to build robots that exhibit truly adaptive behaviors. To this end, we have focused on an amoeba-like unicellular organism, i.e., the plasmodium of true slime mold. Despite the absence of a central nervous system, the plasmodium exhibits versatile spatiotemporal oscillatory patterns and switches spontaneously between the patterns. Inspired by this, we build a real physical robot that exhibits versatile oscillatory patterns and spontaneous transition between the patterns. The results are expected to shed new light on the design scheme for life-like robots that exhibit amazingly versatile and adaptive behavior.
KW - Behavioral Diversity
KW - Biologically-Inspired Robot
KW - Decentralized Control
KW - Soft Actuator
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-31525-1_23
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-31525-1_23
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84864011440
SN - 9783642315244
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 262
EP - 273
BT - Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems - First International Conference, Living Machines 2012, Proceedings
T2 - 1st International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Living Machines 2012
Y2 - 9 July 2012 through 12 July 2012
ER -