Adaptive Locomotion of Multibody Snake-like Robot

This paper represents an adaptive rhythmic control for a snake-like robot with 25 degrees of freedom. The adaptive gait control is implemented in algorithmic way in simulation and on a real robot. We investigated behavioral and energetic properties of this control and a dynamics of different body segments. It turned out that despite using homogeneous generators, physical constraints have an inhomogeneous impact on neighbor body segments. By analytical modeling of such dynamics, it may result in heterogeneous coupling of oscillators for a rhythmic control and impact scalability and synchronization effects of gait pattern generators.

Multi-Robot Organisms: State of the Art

This paper represents the state of the art development on the field of artificial multi-robot organisms. It briefly considers mechatronic development, sensor and computational equipment, software framework and introduces one of the Grand Challenges for swarm and reconfigurable robotics.