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Plant Bioinspired Ecological Robotics
oleh: P. Adrian Frazier, P. Adrian Frazier, Lorenzo Jamone, Kaspar Althoefer, Paco Calvo
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Diterbitkan: | Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-07-01 |
Deskripsi
Plants are movers, but the nature of their movement differs dramatically from that of creatures that move their whole body from point A to point B. Plants grow to where they are going. Bio-inspired robotics sometimes emulates plants' growth-based movement; but growing is part of a broader system of movement guidance and control. We argue that ecological psychology's conception of “information” and “control” can simultaneously make sense of what it means for a plant to navigate its environment and provide a control scheme for the design of ecological plant-inspired robotics. In this effort, we will outline several control laws and give special consideration to the class of control laws identified by tau theory, such as time to contact.