Abstract
Recently, various robots with many degrees of freedom, such as rescue robots and domestic robots, have been developed and used in practical applications. It is difficult to control such robots autonomously in real environments, because in order to control the many degrees of freedom, we have to observe many states, calculate huge amounts of information, and operate many actuators. In this study, we consider a flexible robot without sensors or controllers that can determine the inclination of a slope and climb up the slope. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework, we have developed a prototype robot and conducted experiments. The result indicates that the robot could determine the inclination and climb up a gentle slope autonomously. Thus, we have realized an autonomous robot that has no explicit sensors or controllers.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Ito K, Fukumori Y (2006) Proposal of new framework of controller design based on conceptual quantity (in Japanese). Trans Soc Instrum Control Eng 24:436–445
Ito K (2006) Autonomous control of a snake-like robot utilizing a passive mechanism. Proceeding of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp 381–386
Ito K, Fukumori Y, Takayama (2007) Autonomous control of a real snake-like robot using reinforcement learning, intelligent sensors, sensor networks and information. ISSNIP 2007, 3rd International Conference, pp 389–394
Sugiyama Y, Hirai S (2006) Soft robots for crawling and jumping via deformation (in Japanese). J Robotics Soc Jpn 24:378–387
Kimura H, Maruyama D, Kajimaru F, et al (2007) Sealed flexible mobile robot with hydrostatic skeleton (in Japanese). J Robotics Soc Jpn 25:1092–1099
Lee DN, Young DS (1985) Visual timing of interceptive action. In: Brain mechanisms and spatial vision, Kluwer, pp 1–30
Pfeifer R, Iida F, Gomez G (2006) Designing intelligent robots. J Robotics Soc Jpn 24:783–790
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Additional information
This work was presented in part at the 14th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, Oita, Japan, February 5–7, 2009
About this article
Cite this article
Anzai, R., Ito, K. Development of a flexible autonomous robot without sensors or controllers. Artif Life Robotics 14, 275–278 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10015-009-0670-5
Received:
Accepted:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10015-009-0670-5