Super-mechano-colony self-organizing a mechanical structure
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Inou, N.; Yashika, H.; Morikawa, S.; Kimoto, H.; Ujihashi, S.
- Source
- IEEE SMC'99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Cat. No.99CH37028) Systems, man, and cybernetics Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999. IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on. 3:193-198 vol.3 1999
- Subject
- Robotics and Control Systems
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Stress
Biological system modeling
Mechanical factors
Bones
Humans
Informatics
Robots
Hardware
Control systems
Learning automata
- Language
- ISSN
- 1062-922X
Deals with self-organization of a mechanical structure by an autonomous distributed mechano-system. The feature of this system is to adaptively form a mechanical structure under a loading condition. We discuss two topics about the system. The first topic is a simulation method of a mechanical formation. The simulation model consists of the same mechanical elements which determine their actions by only local information. We propose a new simulation method which actively changes the topological structure for an unexpected loading condition. The second topic is about the mechanisms of group robots. We present two types of mechanisms to realize the function of structural formation in hardware.