Emergence of Autonomous Behaviors on Elastic Circular Robot Consisting of Modular Units : Planning for a Task with Composite Behaviors

Abstract

There are many studies on hardware and software experiments to control autonomous robots. We have focused the elastic robot which has a body with multiple degrees of freedom. The elastic robot consists of homogeneous or heterogeneous simple modules. A feature of them is that their behavior is obtained by an each module movement based on local communications between connected modules. A physical simulation on the computer is carried out to achieve tasks autonomously for a virtual elastic robot. Our goal is to acquire a control system in evolution to achieve a composite task in specific circumstances with and without a obstacle.