Evaluating alternative gait strategies using evolutionary robotics

Sellers, William Irvin, Dennis, Louise Abigail, Wang, W.-J. and Crompton, Robin Hugh (2004) Evaluating alternative gait strategies using evolutionary robotics. Journal of Anatomy, 204 . pp. 343-351.

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

Evolutionary robitics is a branch of artificial intelligence concerned with the automatic generation of autonomous robots. Usually the form of the robit is predefined an various computational techniques are used to control the machine's behaviour. One aspect is the spontaneous generation of walking in legged robots and this can be used to investigate the mechanical requiements for efficient walking in bipeds. This paper demonstrates a bipedal simulator that spontaneously generates walking and running gaits. The model can be customized to represent a range of hominoid morphologies and used to predict performance paramets such as preferred speed and metabolic energy cost. Because it does not require any motion capture data it is particularly suitable for investigating locomotion in fossil animals. The predictoins for modern humans are highly accurate in terms of energy cost for a given speend and thus the values predicted for other bipeds are likely to be good estimates. To illustrate this the cost of transport is calculated for <i>Australopithecus afarensis</i>. The model allows the degree of maximum extension at the knee to be varied causing the model to adopt walking gaits varying from chimpanzee-like to human=like. The energy costs associated with these gait choices can thus be calculated and this information used to evaluate possible locomotor strategies in early hominids

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1021792
Keywords: biomechanics, bipedalism, evolutionary computing, locomotion
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Science > School of Computer Science
Depositing User: Dennis, Louise Abigail
Date Deposited: 13 Feb 2006
Last Modified: 15 Aug 2024 15:33
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/317

Actions (Archive Staff Only)

Edit View Edit View