A minimal biologically-inspired algorithm for robots foraging energy in uncertain environments

Biologically Inspired Robots

The first biologically inspired robots

INTRODUCTION Most articles and books on the history of robotics make only a passing reference to Grey Walter’s robot tortoises, regarding them as quaint period curiosities quite unrelated to our intellectually and technically sophisticated modern creations. This is to some extent understandable, because very little of a satisfactory scientific nature was ever published about the tortoises, and ...

Biologically-inspired Robots for Stage Performance

Stage performances present many challenges and opportunities in the field of robotics. Onstage robots not only have to function flawlessly, they must interact convincingly with their human counterparts and adhere to a rigid timeline. The scope of this work is to create set pieces that look and behave like organic entities for the production of Tod Machover's new opera, Death and the Powers. Wit...

Biologically Inspired Multi-Robot Foraging (Demonstration)

In this demonstration we illustrate the direct usage of the principles of bee-inspired coordination in swarm intelligence on multi-robot systems. We present the first results of this implementation, where a subset of the bee algorithms are implemented on multiple turtlebot robots with the goal to simulate a food foraging application. For this we implemented means for locally detecting the locat...

Biologically Inspired Locomotion in Humanoid Robots

In this article, we present a biologically inspired behavior-based locomotion approach for humanoid robots. On the low level, locomotion is realised by a combination of rythmic pattern generators to produce walking motions and postural reflexes which keep the robot stable and balanced. A higher level behavior could achieve goal-directed movements by exerting influence on the low-level behaviors...