Samenvatting
Engineers fine-tune the design of robot bodies for control purposes; however, a methodology or set of tools is largely absent, and optimization of morphology (shape, material properties of robot bodies, etc.) is lagging behind the development of controllers. This has become even more prominent with the advent of compliant, deformable or ‘soft’ bodies. These carry substantial potential regarding their exploitation for control—sometimes referred to as ‘morphological computation’. In this article, we briefly review different notions of computation by physical systems and propose the dynamical systems framework as the most useful in the context of describing and eventually designing the interactions of controllers and bodies. Then, we look at the pros and cons of simple versus complex bodies, critically reviewing the attractive notion of ‘soft’ bodies automatically taking over control tasks. We address another key dimension of the design space—whether model-based control should be used and to what extent it is feasible to develop faithful models for different morphologies.
Originele taal-2 | Engels |
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Titel | Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics |
Redacteuren | Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Raffaela Giovagnoli |
Plaats van productie | Cham |
Uitgeverij | Springer |
Pagina's | 335-345 |
Aantal pagina's | 11 |
ISBN van elektronische versie | 978-3-319-43784-2 |
ISBN van geprinte versie | 978-3-319-43782-8 |
DOI's | |
Status | Gepubliceerd - 1 jan. 2017 |
Extern gepubliceerd | Ja |
Publicatie series
Naam | Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics |
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Volume | 28 |
ISSN van geprinte versie | 2192-6255 |
ISSN van elektronische versie | 2192-6263 |
Financiering
Acknowledgements M.H. was supported by the Czech Science Foundation under Project GA17-15697Y and by the Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship iCub Body Schema (625727) within the 7th European Community Framework Programme. M.H. also thanks Juan Pablo Carbajal for fruitful discussions and pointers to literature. Both authors thank the EUCogIII project (FP7-ICT 269981) for making us talk to each other.