Autonomous Animated Robots

  • Yamamoto, Masahito (Graduate School of Information Science and Technology) ;
  • Iwadate, Kenji (Graduate School of Information Science and Technology) ;
  • Ooe, Ryosuke (Graduate School of Information Science and Technology) ;
  • Suzuki, Ikuo (Graduate School of Information Science and Technology) ;
  • Furukawa, Masashi (Graduate School of Information Science and Technology)
  • 발행 : 2010.04.01

초록

In this paper, we demonstrate an autonomous design of motion control of virtual creatures (called animated robots in this paper) and develop modeling software for animated robots. An animated robot can behave autonomously by using its own sensors and controllers on three-dimensional physically modeled environment. The developed software can enable us to execute the simulation of animated robots on physical environment at any time during the modeling process. In order to simulate more realistic world, an approximate fluid environment model with low computational costs is presented. It is shown that a combinatorial use of neural network implementation for controllers and the genetic algorithm (GA) or the particle swarm optimization (PSO) is effective for emerging more realistic autonomous behaviours of animated robots.

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