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CPG model for autonomous decentralized multi-legged robot system—generation and transition of oscillation patterns and dynamics of oscillators

✍ Scribed by Shinkichi Inagaki; Hideo Yuasa; Tamio Arai


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
247 KB
Volume
44
Category
Article
ISSN
0921-8890

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✦ Synopsis


A central pattern generator (CPG) model is proposed for the gait-pattern generation mechanism of an autonomous decentralized multi-legged robot system. The topological structure of the CPG is represented as a graph on which two time evolution systems, the Hamilton system and a gradient system, are introduced. The CPG model can generate oscillation patterns depending only on the network topology and can bifurcate different oscillation patterns according to the network energy, which means that the robot can generate gait patterns by connecting legs and transit gait patterns according to such parameters as the desired speed.