Preliminary Analytical Approach to aBrachiation
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We report on our preliminary studies of a new controller for a two-link brachiating robot. Motivated by the pendulum-like motion of an ape's brachiation, we encode this task as the output of a \target dynamical system." Numerical simulations indicate that the resulting controller solves a number of brachiation problems that we term the \ladder", \swing up" and \rope" problems. Preliminary analysis provides some explanation for this success. We discuss a number of formal questions whose answers will be required to gain a full understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of this approach.
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تاریخ انتشار 1996