The Automated Fault-recovery for Four-legged Robots using Parallel Genetic Algorithm

Hyunsoo Park, Kyung Joong Kim
2013 Procedia Computer Science  
It is expected that robots could operate autonomously in extreme environments without human intervention. However, it is not a trivial task to design robots robust to all kinds of faults. On the other hand, Biological entities have capability to create new behaviors overcoming unexpected damage on their body. This is also one of desirable properties for industrial robots operating remotely in extreme conditions. In this paper, we propose to use a bioinspired learning algorithm to generate new
more » ... haviors on a four-legged robot against unexpected body damages. Since the learning algorithm can be accelerated using parallelism on multiple machines, it is possible to adapt to changes (damages) quickly using remote computational resources. Experimental results show that the robot could
doi:10.1016/j.procs.2013.10.039 fatcat:u23mcc6spvekrbzo4uwrflkpi4