Title :
Soft-computing techniques for the control of walking robots
Author :
Caponetto, R. ; Fortuna, L. ; Muscato, G.
Author_Institution :
Soft Comput. & Multimedia Archit., SGS-Thomson, Catania, Italy
Abstract :
We summarize the results of two applications of soft-computing to walking robots. In the first case a fuzzy controller has been adopted to solve a classical problem of controlling the position of three DC motors. Such a controller showed good dynamical performance, was very easy to be tuned and allowed one to add ad-hoc rules in order to change its behaviour. In the second case soft computing techniques allowed one to solve the problem of controlling the trajectory of a new kind of uncertain micro-walking robots
Keywords :
mobile robots; DC motor; FLIF micro-walking robots; ROBINSPEC; fuzzy control; inspection mobile robots; position control; soft-computing; trajectory control; walking robots;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology for Climbing and Walking Robots (DIgest No. 1996/167), IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
Portsmouth
DOI :
10.1049/ic:19960965