コントローラをもたない無脳三脚ロボットの適応的運動生成

抄録

In this paper, we develop a three-legged robot without a brain. This tripedal walking robot generates gait patterns adaptively and autonomously with no sensor, or controller. The key of this adaptability is to utilize a “weakness” of low-torque motors in each leg. Each motor drives leg joint and adjusts its own phase in response to a reaction force from the ground. As a result of the dynamics of body–motor–environment interaction, the weak motors sync each other.