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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 'With the accelerated development of robot technologies, control becomes one
of the central themes of research. In traditional approaches, the controller,
by its internal functionality, finds appropriate actions on the basis of specific
objectives for the task at hand. While very successful in many applications, self-organized
control schemes seem to be favored in large complex systems with unknown dynamics
or which are difficult to model. Reasons are the expected scalability, robustness,
and resilience of self-organizing systems. The paper presents a self-learning
neurocontroller based on extrinsic differential plasticity introduced recently,
applying it to an anthropomorphic musculoskeletal robot arm with attached objects
of unknown physical dynamics. The central finding of the paper is the following
effect: by the mere feedback through the internal dynamics of the object, the
robot is learning to relate each of the objects with a very specific sensorimotor
pattern. Specifically, an attached pendulum pilots the arm into a circular motion,
a half-filled bottle produces axis oriented shaking behavior, a wheel is getting
rotated, and wiping patterns emerge automatically in a table-plus-brush setting.
By these object-specific dynamical patterns, the robot may be said to recognize
the object''s identity, or in other words, it discovers dynamical affordances
of objects. Furthermore, when including hand coordinates obtained from a camera,
a dedicated hand-eye coordination self-organizes spontaneously. These phenomena
are discussed from a specific dynamical system perspective. Central is the dedicated
working regime at the border to instability with its potentially infinite reservoir
of (limit cycle) attractors "waiting" to be excited. Besides converging
toward one of these attractors, variate behavior is also arising from a self-induced
attractor morphing driven by the learning rule. We claim that experimental investigations
with this anthropomorphic, self-learning robot not only generate interesting and
potentially useful behaviors, but may also help to better understand what subjective
human muscle feelings are, how they can be rooted in sensorimotor patterns, and
how these concepts may feed back on robotics.'
article_number: '00008'
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author:
- first_name: Ralf
full_name: Der, Ralf
last_name: Der
- first_name: Georg S
full_name: Martius, Georg S
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last_name: Martius
citation:
ama: Der R, Martius GS. Self organized behavior generation for musculoskeletal robots.
Frontiers in Neurorobotics. 2017;11(MAR). doi:10.3389/fnbot.2017.00008
apa: Der, R., & Martius, G. S. (2017). Self organized behavior generation for
musculoskeletal robots. Frontiers in Neurorobotics. Frontiers Research
Foundation. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2017.00008
chicago: Der, Ralf, and Georg S Martius. “Self Organized Behavior Generation for
Musculoskeletal Robots.” Frontiers in Neurorobotics. Frontiers Research
Foundation, 2017. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2017.00008.
ieee: R. Der and G. S. Martius, “Self organized behavior generation for musculoskeletal
robots,” Frontiers in Neurorobotics, vol. 11, no. MAR. Frontiers Research
Foundation, 2017.
ista: Der R, Martius GS. 2017. Self organized behavior generation for musculoskeletal
robots. Frontiers in Neurorobotics. 11(MAR), 00008.
mla: Der, Ralf, and Georg S. Martius. “Self Organized Behavior Generation for Musculoskeletal
Robots.” Frontiers in Neurorobotics, vol. 11, no. MAR, 00008, Frontiers
Research Foundation, 2017, doi:10.3389/fnbot.2017.00008.
short: R. Der, G.S. Martius, Frontiers in Neurorobotics 11 (2017).
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:47:45Z
date_published: 2017-03-16T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2021-01-12T08:08:04Z
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