Issue 4/2018
Content (27 Articles)
A dung beetle-inspired robotic model and its distributed sensor-driven control for walking and ball rolling
M. Thor, T. Strøm-Hansen, L. B. Larsen, A. Kovalev, S. N. Gorb, E. Baird, P. Manoonpong
Behavioral pattern of pill bugs revealed in virtually infinite multiple T-maze
Jin Murano, Meiji Mitsuishi, Toru Moriyama
SnakeSIM: a ROS-based control and simulation framework for perception-driven obstacle-aided locomotion of snake robots
Filippo Sanfilippo, Øyvind Stavdahl, Pål Liljebäck
Phototactic supersmarticles
William Savoie, Sarah Cannon, Joshua J. Daymude, Ross Warkentin, Shengkai Li, Andréa W. Richa, Dana Randall, Daniel I. Goldman
Barricade construction by primitive termites: task allocation and evolutionary perspectives
Nobuaki Mizumoto
Trajectory optimization and state selection for urban automated driving
Keisuke Yoneda, Toshiki Iida, TaeHyon Kim, Ryo Yanase, Mohammad Aldibaja, Naoki Suganuma
Generating and analyzing hierarchical interaction in a flock of robotic swarms
Toshiyuki Yasuda, Kazuhiro Ohkura
Gait generation for a biped robot with knees and torso via trajectory learning and state-transition estimation
Satoshi Satoh, Kenji Fujimoto
Agent-based models for first- and second-order emergent collective behaviours of social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum aggregation and migration phases
Mohammad Parhizkar, Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo
Nonlinear analysis of an indirectly controlled limit cycle walker
Longchuan Li, Isao Tokuda, Fumihiko Asano
Helical wave propagation motion for a snake robot on a vertical pipe containing a branch
Wei Qi, Tetsushi Kamegawa, Akio Gofuku
High-speed and energy-efficient collisionless walking of underactuated rimless wheel
Fumihiko Asano, Yanqiu Zheng
Robot sweep path planning with weak field constrains under large motion disturbance
Keita Nakamura, Haruna Nakazawa, Jun Ogawa, Keitaro Naruse
Biomimetic pupils for augmenting eye emulation in humanoid robots
Carl Strathearn, Minhua Ma
Evolving autonomous specialization in congested path formation task of robotic swarms
Motoaki Hiraga, Yufei Wei, Toshiyuki Yasuda, Kazuhiro Ohkura
Bio-inspired design and movement generation of dung beetle-like legs
J. Ignasov, A. Kapilavai, K. Filonenko, J. C. Larsen, E. Baird, J. Hallam, S. Büsse, A. Kovalev, S. N. Gorb, L. Duggen, P. Manoonpong
Agreement algorithm using the trial and error method at the macrolevel
Nhuhai Phung, Masao Kubo, Hiroshi Sato, Saori Iwanaga
Development of an experimental system for a snake-like gliding model
Ryusuke Fujisawa, Motoyasu Tanaka, Taro Fujikawa
Robust synchronization of linear multi-agent system with input/output constraints
Kiyotsugu Takaba
Efficiency analysis of telescopic-legged bipedal robots
Yuji Harata, Yotaro Kato, Fumihiko Asano
Transportation simulator for disaster circumstance and bottleneck analysis
Takahiro Majima, Keiki Takadama, Daisuke Watanabe, Taro Aratani, Keiji Sato
Evolutionary design method of probabilistic finite state machine for swarm robots aggregation
Yoshiaki Katada
Trophallaxis with predetermined energy threshold for enhanced performance in swarms of scavenger robots
Choladawan Moonjaita, Hemma Philamore, Fumitoshi Matsuno
The velocity updating rule according to an oblique coordinate system with mutation and dynamic scaling for particle swarm optimization
Tetsuyuki Takahama, Setsuko Sakai
Distributed model predictive consensus control for robotic swarm system
Toru Murayama
Autonomous role assignment and task allocation in scalable swarm robotic systems using local interactions
Kazuaki Yamada