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Here are reviews and notes on papers.  For starters they are all about distributed insect inspired robot locomotion.
 
Here are reviews and notes on papers.  For starters they are all about distributed insect inspired robot locomotion.
  
A Comparison of Three Insect Inspired Locomotion Controllers
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===Distributed/Centralized Robot Locomotion===
Cynthia Ferrell, of the Brooks Lab.  The paper was published sometime in the mid nineties
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*[[A Comparison of Three Insect Inspired Locomotion Controllers]] Farrell
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**[[Descendants of Farrell paper]]
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*[[Lampreys]]
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*[[The Ambler]]
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*[[Biologically Inspired Approaches to Robotics]] (Beer, Quinn, Chiel and Ritzmann)
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*[[A Distributed Neural Network Architecture for Hexapod Robot Locomotion]] Beer, Chiel, Quinn, Espenschied, Larsson
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*[[Controller for a four legged walking machine]] Still, Tilden
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*[[More by Tilden]]
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*[[Walking robots and the Central and Peripheral Control of Locomotion in Insects]] 1999 Delcomyn
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*[[More Brooks]]
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*[[More Beer]]
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*[[Porta and also Celaya]]
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*[[Wilson '66]]
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*[[Comparing different controllers for the coordination of a six-legged walker]] Roggendorf 2003
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*[[Analysis of a distributed model of leg coordination]] Calvitti, Beer 1999
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*[[An information theoretic landscape analysis of neuro-controlled embodied organisms]] Teo, Abbass, 2004
  
She compares a spectrum of approaches from particularly decentralized 'reflexive' based controllers (Beer, Chiel and Cruse) to somewhat the more centralized 'Patterned' controllers (which use less sensation and more central coordination of walking patterns) (Brooks, Collins and Stuart), with a look at 'Hybrid' control schemes incorporating elements of both.  I should say now that, as of two weeks ago, I am a student of Beer.
 
  
When it comes down to it, Ferrell's results favor patterned approaches. 
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===Questions===
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Where is the debate and the work now?  I understand if interest has moved elsewhere, like to swarms, but would this be because anything in this domain got resolved, or because people (including funders) got bored?
  
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===Media and Papers===
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I got all the papers off Google Scholar.
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Some videos here:  I can see my desk:
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http://www.youtube.com/user/chully00
  
Questions:
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===Keywords===
It sounded like implementation on a robot designed for centralized locomotion models interfered with the ability of the researchers to characterize the full pros and cons of each approach.  In a few places they describe problems they encountered implementing the reflexive approaches at the pure 'reflexive' researchers didn't.
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"Neuroethology ("neuro" Greek; related to nerve cells, "ethos" Greek; habit or custom) is an evolutionary and comparative approach to the study of animal behavior and its underlying biological causation by the nervous system. This interdisciplinary branch of neuroscience endeavors to understand how the central nervous system translates biologically relevant stimuli into behavioral activity, thus attempting to elucidate the structure and function of the neurophysiological "black box" that controls the natural behavior of animals, often referred to as "instinctive behavior" or "innate behavior"."
 
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroethology
If there was a debate here, it happened a good decade+ ago. Where is the controversy now?
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To what extent were biologically inspired approaches implemented on either of the Martian rovers. Why not?
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Latest revision as of 19:42, 31 October 2008

Here are reviews and notes on papers. For starters they are all about distributed insect inspired robot locomotion.

Contents

Distributed/Centralized Robot Locomotion


Questions

Where is the debate and the work now? I understand if interest has moved elsewhere, like to swarms, but would this be because anything in this domain got resolved, or because people (including funders) got bored?

Media and Papers

I got all the papers off Google Scholar. Some videos here: I can see my desk: http://www.youtube.com/user/chully00

Keywords

"Neuroethology ("neuro" Greek; related to nerve cells, "ethos" Greek; habit or custom) is an evolutionary and comparative approach to the study of animal behavior and its underlying biological causation by the nervous system. This interdisciplinary branch of neuroscience endeavors to understand how the central nervous system translates biologically relevant stimuli into behavioral activity, thus attempting to elucidate the structure and function of the neurophysiological "black box" that controls the natural behavior of animals, often referred to as "instinctive behavior" or "innate behavior"." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroethology