Lévy Walks in Robotics System: A Biological Fluctuation Based Perspective

Date

Jun 13, 2013

Time

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Speaker

Surya G. Nurzaman

Affiliation

Bio-inspired Robotics Lab., ETH Zürich

Language

en

Main Topic

Physik

Other Topics

Physik

Host

Aleksei Chechkin

Description

In robotics, the classical approach to control the robot behavior is to supress noise in order to obtain clear, deterministic states. On the other hand, biological systems are found to utilize random fluctuations, i.e. noise, naturally existing in its internal system and environment. The phenomena have not only been shown to equip biological systems with flexibility to adapt to different environments, but also increase their energy efficiency. In this talk, I will present and discuss the application of this concept to realize an adaptive and efficient searching behavior in simple mobile robot. More specifically, I will present a generalized mathematical model of biological fluctuation phenomena, which is used to control the behavior of the robot such that it performs variants of an energy efficient search strategy known as Lévy Walks.

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