Zamboni Riccardo, Owaki Dai, Hayashibe Mitsuhiro
Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.
Department of Robotics, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Front Robot AI. 2021 May 26;8:632804. doi: 10.3389/frobt.2021.632804. eCollection 2021.
To obtain biologically inspired robotic control, the architecture of central pattern generators (CPGs) has been extensively adopted to generate periodic patterns for locomotor control. This is attributed to the interesting properties of nonlinear oscillators. Although sensory feedback in CPGs is not necessary for the generation of patterns, it plays a central role in guaranteeing adaptivity to environmental conditions. Nonetheless, its inclusion significantly modifies the dynamics of the CPG architecture, which often leads to bifurcations. For instance, the force feedback can be exploited to derive information regarding the state of the system. In particular, the approach can be adopted by coupling proprioceptive information with the state of the oscillation itself in the CPG model. This paper discusses this policy with respect to other types of feedback; it provides higher adaptivity and an optimal energy efficiency for reflex-like actuation. We believe this is the first attempt to analyse the optimal energy efficiency along with the adaptivity of the Tegotae approach.
为了获得受生物启发的机器人控制,中央模式发生器(CPG)的架构已被广泛用于生成用于运动控制的周期性模式。这归因于非线性振荡器的有趣特性。虽然在模式生成过程中CPG中的感觉反馈不是必需的,但它在保证对环境条件的适应性方面起着核心作用。尽管如此,它的加入会显著改变CPG架构的动力学,这通常会导致分岔。例如,力反馈可用于获取有关系统状态的信息。特别是,通过将本体感受信息与CPG模型中振荡本身的状态相结合,可以采用这种方法。本文讨论了这种策略相对于其他类型反馈的情况;它为类似反射的驱动提供了更高的适应性和最佳的能量效率。我们相信这是首次尝试分析Tegotae方法的最佳能量效率及其适应性。