TRANSPOSING SIMULATED SELF-ORGANIZING ROBOTS INTO REALITY USING THE PLUG&LEARN ARCHITECTURE

Frank Güttler, Wolfgang Rabe, Jörn Hoffmann, Martin Bogdan, Ralf Der

2010

Abstract

Simulations for robots like the robot simulator LPZROBOTS allow a fast proof of theoretical concepts using self-organizing neural networks. This publication presents a hardware platform as a solution to transpose these theoretical results to real robots without the time consuming reimplementation of algorithms and without the loss of computational power a standard desktop PC offers. This is shown by the example of the THREECHAINED TWOWHEELED robot which gains embodiment and shows the same emergent behaviour in comparison to the simulated counterpart.

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Güttler F., Rabe W., Hoffmann J., Bogdan M. and Der R. (2010). TRANSPOSING SIMULATED SELF-ORGANIZING ROBOTS INTO REALITY USING THE PLUG&LEARN ARCHITECTURE . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Fuzzy Computation and 2nd International Conference on Neural Computation - Volume 1: ICNC, (IJCCI 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-32-4, pages 350-357. DOI: 10.5220/0003086103500357


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@conference{icnc10,
author={Frank Güttler and Wolfgang Rabe and Jörn Hoffmann and Martin Bogdan and Ralf Der},
title={TRANSPOSING SIMULATED SELF-ORGANIZING ROBOTS INTO REALITY USING THE PLUG&LEARN ARCHITECTURE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Fuzzy Computation and 2nd International Conference on Neural Computation - Volume 1: ICNC, (IJCCI 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={350-357},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003086103500357},
isbn={978-989-8425-32-4},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Fuzzy Computation and 2nd International Conference on Neural Computation - Volume 1: ICNC, (IJCCI 2010)
TI - TRANSPOSING SIMULATED SELF-ORGANIZING ROBOTS INTO REALITY USING THE PLUG&LEARN ARCHITECTURE
SN - 978-989-8425-32-4
AU - Güttler F.
AU - Rabe W.
AU - Hoffmann J.
AU - Bogdan M.
AU - Der R.
PY - 2010
SP - 350
EP - 357
DO - 10.5220/0003086103500357