کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
413301 680393 2006 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Using cellular automata and gradients to control self-reconfiguration
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی کامپیوتر هوش مصنوعی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Using cellular automata and gradients to control self-reconfiguration
چکیده انگلیسی

Self-reconfigurable robots are built from modules, which are autonomously able to change the way they are connected. Such a robot can, through this self-reconfiguration process, change its shape. The process has proved to be difficult to control, because it involves control of a distributed system of mechanically coupled modules connected in time-varying ways. In this paper we present an approach to the control problem where the desired configuration is grown from an initial seed module. Seeds produce growth by creating a gradient in the system, using local communication, which spare modules descend to locate the seed. The growth is guided by a cellular automaton, which is automatically generated on the basis of a three-dimensional CAD model or a mathematical description of the desired configuration. The approach is evaluated in simulation and we find that the self-reconfiguration process always converges and the time to complete a configuration scales approximately linearly with the number of modules. However, an open question is how the simulation results transfer to a physically realized self-reconfigurable robot.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Robotics and Autonomous Systems - Volume 54, Issue 2, 28 February 2006, Pages 135–141
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