Simple or complex bodies? Trade-offs in exploiting body morphology for control

Matej Hoffmann, Vincent C. Müller

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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-2Engels
TitelStudies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
RedacteurenGordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Raffaela Giovagnoli
Plaats van productieCham
UitgeverijSpringer
Pagina's335-345
Aantal pagina's11
ISBN van elektronische versie978-3-319-43784-2
ISBN van geprinte versie978-3-319-43782-8
DOI's
StatusGepubliceerd - 1 jan. 2017
Extern gepubliceerdJa

Publicatie series

NaamStudies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
Volume28
ISSN van geprinte versie2192-6255
ISSN van elektronische versie2192-6263

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.

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