Emerging motor behaviors: learning joint coordination in articulated mobile robots
Diego E. Pardo, Cecilio Angulo, Sergio del Moral and Andreu Català
Neurocomputing Volume 72, Number 16-18, pp. 3624-3630, 2009. ISSN 0925-2312

Abstract

In this paper, we analyse the insights behind the common approach to the assessment of robot motor behaviours in articulated mobile structures with compromised dynamic balance. We present a new approach to this problem and a methodology that implements it for motor behaviours encapsulated in rest-to-rest motions. As well as common methods, we assume the availability of kinematic information about the solution to the task, but reference is not made to the workspace, allowing the workspace to be free of restrictions. Our control framework, based on local control policies at the joint acceleration level, attracts actuated degrees of freedom (DOFs) to the desired final configuration; meanwhile, the resulting final states of the unactuated DOFs are viewed as an indirect consequence of the profile of the policies. Dynamical systems are used as acceleration policies, providing the actuated system with convenient attractor properties. The control policies, parametrized around imposed simple primitives, are deformed by means of changes in the parameters. This modulation is optimized, by means of a stochastic algorithm, in order to control the unactuated DOFs and thus carry out the desired motor behaviour.

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