Morphogenetic Robotics: A New Paradigm for Designing Self-Organizing, Self-Reconfigurable and Self-Adaptive Robots
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چکیده
By morphogenetic robotics, we mean a class of methodologies for designing self-organizing, self-reconfigurable and self-adaptive robots inspired by biological morphogenesis. We categorize these methodologies into three areas, namely, morphogenetic swarm robotic systems, morphogenetic modular robots and morphogenetic co-design of body and brain for robots. We also discuss the relationship between morphogenetic robotics and a few closely related areas in robotics, such as epigenetic robotics that focuses on cognitive development in robotic systems and evolutionary robotics that is concerned with evolutionary design of robot controllers. A few examples are provided to illustrate the main ideas underlying the morphogenetic approaches to robotics.
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