A System-of-Systems Bio-Inspired Design Process: Conceptual Design and Physical Prototype of a Reconfigurable Robot Capable of Multi-Modal Locomotion

Frontiers in Neurorobotics

Kristin Wood¹  Ricardo Sosa²  Srinivasan Venkataraman³  Rajesh Elara Mohan⁴  Nishann Brahmananthan⁴  Ning Tan⁵  Zhenglong Sun⁷ 

[1] Architecture, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia;;Art Design &Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India;Engineering Products Development Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, Singapore;Key Laboratory of Machine Intelligence and Advanced Computing, Ministry of Education, School of Data and Computer Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China;School of Science and Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China;Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society, Shenzhen, China;

关键词: bio-inspired design;    system-of-systems;    multi-model locomotion;    reconfigurable robots;    mobile robotics;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fnbot.2019.00078

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Modern engineering problems require solutions with multiple functionalities in order to meet their practical needs to handle a variety of applications in different scenarios. Conventional design paradigms for single design purpose may not be able to satisfy this requirement efficiently. This paper proposes a novel system-of-systems bio-inspired design method framed in a solution-driven bio-inspired design paradigm. The whole design process consists of eight steps, that is, (1) biological solutions identification, (2) biological solutions definition/champion biological solutions, (3) principle extraction from each champion biological solution, (4) merging of extracted principles, (5) solution reframing, (6) problem search, (7) problem definition, and (8) principles application & implementation. The steps are elaborated and a case study of reconfigurable robots is presented following these eight steps. The design originates from the multimodal locomotion capabilities of two species (i.e., spiders and primates) and is analyzed based on the Pugh analysis. The resulting robotic platform could be potentially used for urban patrolling purposes.

【 授权许可】

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