Title
Complex behaviours through modulation in autonomous robot control
Abstract
Combining previous experience and knowledge to contemplate tasks of increasing complexity is one of the most interesting problems in autonomous robotics. Here we present an ANN based modular architecture that uses the concept of modulation to increase the possibilities of reusing previously obtained modules. A first approximation to the modulation of the actuators was tested in a previous paper where we showed how it was useful to obtain more complex behaviours that those obtained using only activation / inhibition. In this paper we extend the concept to sensor modulation, which enables the architecture to easily modify the required behaviour for a module, we show how both types of modulation can be used at the same time and how the activation / inhibition can be seen as a particular case of modulation. Some examples in a real robot illustrate the capabilities of the whole architecture.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1007/11494669_88
IWANN
Keywords
Field
DocType
whole architecture,interesting problem,previous experience,particular case,complex behaviour,modular architecture,required behaviour,real robot,previous paper,autonomous robotics,autonomous robot control
Computer science,Biomimetics,Modulation,Control engineering,Autonomous system (mathematics),Artificial intelligence,Autonomous robot,Artificial neural network,Robot,Robotics,Distributed computing,Actuator
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
3512
0302-9743
3-540-26208-3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.51
9
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
José A. Becerra18616.45
F. Bellas2879.69
José Santos39714.77
R. J. Duro414819.49