The History and Future of Stiquito: A Hexapod Insectoid Robot / James M. Conrad ; Jonathan W. Mills1: |
Introduction / 1.1: |
The Origins of Stiquito / 1.2: |
Engineering a Commercial Stiquito / 1.3: |
How the Stiquito Insect Walks / 1.4: |
Microprocessor Control and Stiquito Controlled / 1.5: |
The Extended Analog Computer as a Biologically Based Stiquito Controller / 1.6: |
Description of the Extended Analog Computer (EAC) / 1.6.1: |
The EAC as Neuromorphic Hybrid Device / 1.6.2: |
A Proprioceptic Nervous System Model / 1.6.3: |
EAC as an Analog Nervous System for Stiquito / 1.6.4: |
The Sessile Stiquito Colony / 1.7: |
The Failure of Indiana University's Hexapod Stiquito Colony / 1.7.1: |
Moving Data, Sessile Robots, Robot Sex / 1.7.2: |
The Evolution of the Colony / 1.7.3: |
Extinction? / 1.7.4: |
Educational Uses of Stiquito / 1.8: |
The Future of Stiquito / 1.9: |
References |
Learning Legged Locomotion / Fumiya Iida ; Simon Bovet2: |
Learning from Delayed Reward / 2.1: |
One-legged Hopping Robot / 2.2.1: |
Learning to Hop Over Rough Terrain / 2.2.2: |
Learning from Implicit Reward / 2.3: |
Four-legged Running Robot / 2.3.1: |
Learning to Follow an Object / 2.3.2: |
Conclusion / 2.4: |
Salamandra Robotica: A Biologically Inspired Amphibious Robot that Swims and Walks / Alessandro Crespi ; Auke Jan Ijspeert3: |
Robots as Tools for Biology / 3.1: |
Related Work / 3.1.2: |
Central Pattern Generator Model / 3.1.3: |
Robot's Design / 3.2: |
First Prototype / 3.2.1: |
Body Elements / 3.2.2: |
Limb Elements / 3.2.3: |
Design Problems / 3.2.4: |
Hardware / 3.3: |
Locomotion Controller Circuit / 3.3.1: |
Experiments / 3.4: |
Speed as Function of Drive / 3.4.1: |
Kinematic Measurements / 3.4.2: |
Future Work / 3.5: |
Realization of an Amphibious Salamander Robot / 3.6: |
Central Pattern Generators in Robots / 3.6.2: |
Contributions to Biology / 3.6.3: |
Multilocomotion Robot: Novel Concept, Mechanism, and Control of Bio-inspired Robot / Toshio Fukuda ; Tadayoshi Aoyama ; Yasuhisa Hasegawa ; Kosuke Sekiyama4: |
Multilocomotion Robot / 4.1: |
Diversity of Locomotion in Animals / 4.2.1: |
Gorilla Robot / 4.2.2: |
Gorilla Robot I / 4.3.1: |
Gorilla Robot II / 4.3.2: |
Gorilla Robot III / 4.3.3: |
Evaluation of the Gorilla Robot on Slopes as Quadruped Hardware / 4.4: |
Evaluation of Joint Torque in Quadruped Walk on a Slope / 4.4.1: |
Simulation Analysis / 4.4.2: |
Experiment / 4.4.3: |
Discussion / 4.4.4: |
Previous Works Using the Gorilla Robot / 4.5: |
Summary / 4.6: |
Self-regulatory Hardware: Evolutionary Design for Mechanical Passivity on a Pseudo Passive Dynamic Walker / Hiroshi Yokoi ; Kojiro Matsushita5: |
Background / 5.1: |
Evolutionary Design System of Legged Robots / 5.3: |
Three-dimensional Physics World / 5.3.1: |
Coupled Evolution Part / 5.3.2: |
Evaluation Methods / 5.3.3: |
Evolutionary Design of Biped Robots / 5.4: |
Morphological and Control Configuration for Biped Robots / 5.4.1: |
Results of First Evolutionary Design / 5.4.2: |
Additional Setup Condition for the Second Evolutionary Design / 5.4.3: |
Results of the Second Evolutionary Design / 5.4.4: |
Development of a Novel Pseudo Passive Dynamic Walker / 5.4.5: |
Perception for Action in Roving Robots: A Dynamical System Approach / Paolo Arena ; Sebastiano De Fiore ; Luca Patane5.5: |
Control Architecture / 6.1: |
Perceptual System / 6.2.1: |
Action Selection Layer / 6.2.2: |
Hardware Devices / 6.3: |
Spark Main Board / 6.3.1: |
Rover II / 6.3.2: |
Hardware Implementation / 6.4: |
Experimental Setup / 6.5: |
Experimental Results / 6.5.2: |
Summary and Remarks / 6.6: |
Nature-inspired Single-electron Computers / Tetsuya Asai ; Takahide Oya6.7: |
A Single-electron Reaction-diffusion Device for Computation of a Voronoi Diagram / 7.1: |
Neuronal Synchrony Detection on Single-electron Neural Networks / 7.3: |
Stochastic Resonance Among Single-Electron Neurons on Schottky Wrap-Gate Devices / 7.4: |
Single-electron Circuits Performing Dendritic Pattern Formation with Nature-inspired Cellular Automata / 7.5: |
Summary and Future Works / 7.6: |
Tribolon: Water-Based Self-Assembly Robots / Shuhei Miyashita ; Max Lungarella ; Rolf Pfeifer8: |
Self-Assembly Robots / 8.1: |
The "ABC Problem" / 8.2.1: |
Passive Tile Model / 8.3: |
Self-propelled Model: Tiles with Vibration Motors / 8.3.2: |
Connectable Model: with Peltier Connector / 8.3.3: |
Scale-Free Self-Assembly: Size Matters / 8.3.4: |
Speculations About Life / 8.4: |
Artificial Symbiosis in EcoBots / Ioannis A. Ieropoulos ; John Greenman ; Chris Melhuish ; Ian Horsfield9: |
Artificial Symbiosis / 9.1: |
Microbial Fuel Cells / 9.1.2: |
Materials and Methods / 9.2: |
MFC Setup for Robot Runs / 9.2.1: |
Robot Design and Principle of Operation / 9.2.2: |
Results / 9.2.3: |
EcoBot-I / 9.3.1: |
EcoBot-II / 9.3.2: |
Conclusions / 9.4: |
The Phi-Bot: A Robot Controlled by a Slime Mould / Soichiro Tsuda ; Stefan Artmann ; Klaus-Peter Zauner10: |
Physarum Polycephalum as Information Processor / 10.1: |
Cellular Robot Control / 10.3: |
The First Generation of the ?-bot: Tethered Robot Design / 10.3.1: |
The Second Generation of the ?-bot: On-Board Cellular Controller / 10.3.2: |
Computation, Control, and Coordination in the ?-Bot: Material for a Theory of Bounded Computability / 10.4: |
Computation and the Syntactic Efficiency and Reliability of Computational Media / 10.4.1: |
Control and the Semantic Generality of Computational Media / 10.4.2: |
Coordination and the Pragmatic Versatility of Computational Media / 10.4.3: |
Reaction-Diffusion Controllers for Robots / Andrew Adamatzky ; Benjamin De Lacy Costello10.5: |
BZ Medium / 11.1: |
Robot Taxis / 11.3: |
Open-Loop Parallel Actuators / 11.4: |
Closed-Loop Control of Robotic Hand / 11.5: |
Physarum Robots / 11.6: |
Index / 11.7: |
The History and Future of Stiquito: A Hexapod Insectoid Robot / James M. Conrad ; Jonathan W. Mills1: |
Introduction / 1.1: |
The Origins of Stiquito / 1.2: |