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BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED ROBOT CONTROL

IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 1994
Abstract Limitations of conventional control methods for robots operating in unstructured environments are discussed, and contrasted with control techniques used by living systems. Three specific examples of robot systems designed with inspiration from biology are discussed: (1) multifingered robot hands with shape-adaptive grasping, (2) a walking ...
George A. Bekey, M. Anthony Lewis
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Biological Inspired Flying Robot

Volume 7: 33rd Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, Parts A and B, 2009
This paper presents the development of computational simulation based on the dynamics of a robotic bird. The study analyze the wing angle of attack and the velocity of the bird, the tail influence, the gliding flight and the flapping flight with different strategies and algorithms of control.
Couceiro, Micael S., Ferreira, N. M. Fonseca, Figueiredo, Carlos M., Tenreiro Machado, J. A.   +3 more
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Biologically inspired robotic microswimmers

2011 IEEE 37th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC), 2011
Most of the conventional drugs have narrow therapeutic window and require localization to a specific site in the body. However, the current drug delivery systems lack in terms of target specificity and result in uptake of drugs by other cells or tissues which can lead to toxic manifestations.
J. Scogna, J. Olkowski, N. Fatema, P. Parameswaran, V. Dhillon   +4 more
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Biologically Inspired SNN for Robot Control

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2013
This paper proposes a spiking-neural-network-based robot controller inspired by the control structures of biological systems. Information is routed through the network using facilitating dynamic synapses with short-term plasticity. Learning occurs through long-term synaptic plasticity which is implemented using the temporal difference learning rule to ...
Eric, Nichols, Liam J, McDaid, Nazmul, Siddique   +2 more
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Biologically Inspired Robotic Microswimmers

Volume 12: Micro and Nano Systems, Parts A and B, 2009
Drug delivery systems have had a profound impact on several branches of medicine. Engineers and researchers alike have labored to create a controlled drug delivery device capable of regulated dosage release and a specific cell targeting mechanism.
William R. Hesse, Matthew Federici, David M. Casale, Peter Fink, Basil Milton, Min Jun Kim   +5 more
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Biologically Inspired Snake-like Robots

2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, 2005
We have developed the snake-like robot since 1972. The body of snake has "the function of an arm" when it holds something by coiling itself and also has "the function of legs" when it moves by creeping. The body of ACM has several functions, which are fulfilled one after another according to the situation.
S. Hirose, M. Mori
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Biological undulation inspired swimming robot

2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017
Aquatic animal movement results from a complex balance between muscular actuation, swimmer's inertia, damping, and stiffness; as well as, the effects from the fluid environment. Most aquatic animals utilize undulatory propulsion methods during swimming.
Xinghua Jia, Zongyao Chen, J M Petrosino, William R Hamel, Mingjun Zhang   +4 more
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Biologically inspired robot behavior design

2008 6th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, 2008
As a kind of humane machine interface, desktop robots are appropriate for delivering information generated in computers or networks with body movements to the users. The model of human vision mechanism provides a framework for mapping the diversified expressive behaviors of the desktop robots to the emoticons, which happens at different levels of ...
null Xing Shusong, null Hua Jiefeng
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TRoBS — a biological inspired robot

2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2009
This contribution presents a biological inspired robot, called Trunk Robot Braunschweig (TRoBS). The structural shape of the robot is motivated by a trunk mechanism, where the robot is actuated by NiTi shape memory alloy (SMA) wires, placed according to the agonist-antagonist principle of muscles.
Jan Schmitt, Philipp Last, Christian Lochte, Annika Raatz, Jurgen Hesselbach   +4 more
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Biologically Inspired Collective Robotics

2005
In this chapter, we review our recent research in the area of collective robotics, and the problem of controlling multiple robots in the completion of common tasks. Our approach is characterized with a strong inclination for biological inspiration in which examples in nature — social insects in particular — are used as a way of designing strategies for
C. Ronald Kube, Chris A.C. Parker, Tao Wang, Hong Zhang   +3 more
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