Experimental implementation of mobile robot taxis with onboard Belousov-Zhabotinsky chemical medium

被引：40

作者：

Adamatzky, A

Costello, BD

Melhuish, C

Ratcliffe, N

机构：

[1] Univ W England, Fac Comp Engn & Math Sci, Bristol BS16 1QY, Avon, England

[2] Univ W England, Fac Sci Appl, Dept Chem & Phys Sci, Bristol BS16 1QY, Avon, England

来源：

MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING C-BIOMIMETIC AND SUPRAMOLECULAR SYSTEMS | 2004年 / 24卷 / 04期

基金：

英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;

关键词：

mobile robot; onboard Belousov-Zhabotinsky chemical medium; taxis;

D O I：

10.1016/j.msec.2004.02.002

中图分类号：

T [工业技术];

学科分类号：

08 ;

摘要：

We discuss the first-ever experimental realization of the onboard excitable chemical controller for stimulus-guided navigation of mobile robots. We demonstrate that the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction in the form of an onboard thin layer chemical reactor can be used to execute primitive forms of positive taxis. To dynamically shape the robot's motion trajectory in an experimental arena, we stimulate a marginal part of the BZ reactor with silver and analyse snapshots of the spatial excitation dynamics. In the paper, we offer an experimental set-up, including algorithms and interfacing, for an on-board chemical robotic controller, which contributes to the fields of non-classical computation, nonlinear physics, and unconventional robotics. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：541 / 548

页数：8

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