Nature's All-in-One: Multitasking Robots Inspired by Dung Beetles.

ABSTRACT: Dung beetles impressively coordinate their 6 legs to effectively roll large dung balls. They can also roll dung balls varying in the weight on different terrains. The mechanisms underlying how their motor commands are adapted to walk and simultaneously roll balls (multitasking behavior) under different conditions remain unknown. This study unravels the mechanisms of how dung beetles roll dung balls and adapt their leg movements to stably roll balls over different terrains for multitasking robots. A modular neural-based loco-manipulation control inspired by and based on ethological observations of the ball-rolling behavior of dung beetles is synthesized. The proposed neural-based control contains a central pattern generator (CPG) module, a pattern formation network (PFN) module, and a robot

SUBMITTER: Leung B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11653611 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature