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Repetition, Segmentation, Differentiation in Robots




Robots based on the human form.

The method of locomotion called "walking" requires considerably more actuators than the wheel method of locomotion. The drive system is heavy and controlling it is a challenge. Walking machines are more practical because they can move while separately selecting the point of leg contact with the ground by adapting to the shape of the terrain.


  

The Protobot design was aimed to use insights from insect neurobiology to guide the design of adaptive sensorimotor control systems for legged robots. The basis of this design comes from the cockroach.

This approach allowed the body size to be significantly reduced due to the overlapping nature of insect legs.

Insects have hundreds of sensors on each leg that contribute to the individual motion of each leg. These sensors provide coordinating information to other legs and measure the positing of jonts, stress from loading of the leg and the force generated by the muscles.