Plant Bioinspired Ecological Robotics

Autor: Lorenzo Jamone, Kaspar Althoefer, P. Adrian Frazier, Paco Calvo
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Vol 7 (2020)
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
ISSN: 2296-9144
DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2020.00079/full
Popis: Plants move. But the nature of their movement differs dramatically from that of creatures that move their whole body from Point A to Point B. Plants grow to where they are going, and they extend themselves out and away from any one place. Bio-inspired robotics sometimes emulate plants’ growth-based movement, but growing is part of a broader system of movement guidance and control. We argue that ecological psychology’s conception of information and control and can simultaneously make sense of what it means for a plant to navigate its environment and provide a control scheme for the design of ecological plant-inspired robotics. In this effort, we will outline several control laws and give special consideration to the class of control laws identified by tau theory, such as time to contact.
Databáze: OpenAIRE