The study of bio-inspired robot motion control system

Robots and robotics technologies are expected as new tools for inspection and manipulation. The dynamics of robot always are changed by environment and robot of state in mission. Therefore, an adaptation system, which is able to switch controller due to environment and robot of state, is needed. Meanwhile, animals are able to go through several environments and adapt several own states. The adaptation system is realized Central Pattern Generator (CPG). CPG exists in nervous system of animals and generates rhythmical motion pattern. In this paper, a robot motion control system using CPG is proposed and applied to an amphibious multi-link mobile robot.