A test bed for insect-inspired robotic control.
Flying insects are remarkable examples of sophisticated sensory-motor control systems. Insects have solved the fundamental challenge facing the field of mobile robots: robust sensory-motor mapping. Control models based on insects can contribute much to the design of robotic control systems. We present our work on a preliminary robotic control system inspired by current behavioural and physiological models of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. We designed a five-degrees-of-freedom robotic system that serves as a novel simulation/mobile robot hybrid. This design has allowed us to implement a fly-inspired control system that uses visual and mechanosensory feedback. Our results suggest that a simple control scheme can yield surprisingly robust fly-like robotic behaviour.
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Michael B
MB
Reiser
Michael H
MH
Dickinson
D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D032701:Biomimetics / Q000379:methods; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004867:Equipment Design; D005246:Feedback / Q000502:physiology; D005426:Flight, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D008954:Models, Biological; D009949:Orientation / Q000502:physiology; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012371:Robotics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*