Firefly flashing synchronization as inspiration for selfsynchronization of walking robot gait patterns using a decentralized Robot Control Architecture

Bojan Jakimovski, Benjamin Meyer, Erik Maehle

Abstract

In this paper we introduce and elaborate a biologically inspired methodology for robot walking gait pattern self-synchronization using ORCA (Organic Robot Control Architecture). The firefly based pulse coupled biological oscillator concept has been successfully applied for achieving self-organized synchronization of walking robot gait patterns by dynamically prolonging and shortening of robot's legs stance and swing phases. The results from the experiments done on our hexapod robot demonstrator show the practical usefulness of this biologically inspired approach for run-time self-synchronizing of walking robot gait pattern parameters.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationARCS 2010: Architecture of Computing Systems - ARCS 2010
Number of pages12
Volume5974 LNCS
PublisherSpringer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date01.12.2010
Pages 61-72
ISBN (Print)978-3-642-11949-1
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-642-11950-7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.12.2010
Event23rd International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems
- Hannover, Germany
Duration: 22.02.201025.02.2010
Conference number: 83274

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