Biologically Inspired Robotics 2016

Biologically Inspired Collective Robotics

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 controlling robots. This approach has been...

Biologically Inspired Intelligent Robotics

Humans throughout history have always sought to mimic the appearance, mobility, functionality, intelligent operation, and thinking process of biological creatures. This field of biologically inspired technology, having the moniker biomimetics, has evolved from making static copies of human and animals in the form of statues to the emergence of robots that operate with realistic behavior. Imagin...

Self-organization, embodiment, and biologically inspired robotics.

Robotics researchers increasingly agree that ideas from biology and self-organization can strongly benefit the design of autonomous robots. Biological organisms have evolved to perform and survive in a world characterized by rapid changes, high uncertainty, indefinite richness, and limited availability of information. Industrial robots, in contrast, operate in highly controlled environments wit...

Design principles for biologically inspired cognitive robotics

Distributed control systems for biologically inspired robotics

A software control architecture for robotics is frequently a long term commitment, and many different and often superficially conflicting requirements may have to be satisfied. Potential requirements include real-time guarantees on behaviour; a more general need for low latencies through the system; ability of robots to run autonomously; ease of interfacing to existing systems; ease of extensib...