A fluid-filled soft robot that exhibits spontaneous switching among versatile spatiotemporal oscillatory patterns inspired by the true slime mold

Artificial Life

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 67-78

  Umedachi, Takuya ^a   Idei, Ryo ^b   Ito, Kentaro ^c   Ishiguro, Akio ^d  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behavioral diversity; Biologically inspired robot; Decentralized control; Soft actuator

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; BIOMIMETICS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; MACHINE DESIGN; MOLDS;

BEHAVIORAL DIVERSITY; BIOLOGICALLY-INSPIRED ROBOTS; CHANGING ENVIRONMENT; COUPLED NONLINEAR OSCILLATORS; OSCILLATORY PATTERNS; SOFT ACTUATORS; TRADITIONAL ENGINEERINGS; UNICELLULAR ORGANISMS;

ROBOTS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; ELASTICITY; METHODOLOGY; OSCILLOMETRY; PHYSARUM; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; ELASTICITY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OSCILLOMETRY; PHYSARUM; ROBOTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85047687519     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: 15309185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/ARTL_a_00081     Document Type: Article

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