Machines' "many little lives" *: An experimental robotic platform to investigate the fundamental and necessary ingredients for life-like artificial sy

机器的“许多小生命”*：一个实验性机器人平台，用于研究类似生命的人造系统的基本和必要成分

• 批准号: 2593535
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2593535
• 关键词: Machines; many; little; lives; experimental

This project aims to build a soft, three-level artificial platform to systematically test life-like properties like equilibrium, emergence, robustness, and learning. The objectives are listed below and detailed in later sections: 1. Build tensegrity modules with multiple equilibria that will (passively) sense and react to a simple environment2. Implement CPG-like oscillators for modules, capable to sense sensory information across the network and perform short-range communication with adjacent modules to achieve locomotion 3. Connect levels 1 and 2 with artificial neural long-distance connections stimulating the lower levels and investigate whether the system can be trained to express simple forms of learning (e.g., habituation)4. Successful learning would enable us to address how information moves across scales in a system and offer opportunities to investigate the possibility of (i) "artificial chimaeras", i.e., merging two tensegrity modules trained to reach different equilibrium points and observe what the result is, and/or (ii) "robot cancer", that is, how a single module breaking communication with others (as suggested by [16]) will affect the network.

该项目旨在建立一个柔软的三级人造平台，以系统地测试诸如均衡，出现，鲁棒性和学习的栩栩如生的特性。这些目标在下面列出，并在后面的部分中进行详细介绍：1。具有多个平衡的张力模块，该模块将（被动地）感知并对简单的环境做出反应2。实施类似CPG的振荡器来用于模块，能够在整个网络上感知感觉信息，并与相邻模块进行短距离通信以实现运动3。将级别的1和2连接到人工神经长距离连接刺激较低级别的水平并调查系统是否可以训练该系统以表达简单的学习形式（例如，求职）4。成功的学习将使我们能够解决系统中的信息如何移动，并提供机会调查（i）“人造嵌合体”的可能性，即合并了两个经过培训的次级紧密模块，以达到不同的均衡点并观察结果，并观察结果是什么，以及/或（ii）“机器人癌”，这是对单个模块的沟通范围的，也是如此的网络，该网络对其他模块进行了影响（16（16）（16（16）（16）（16）（16）（16）（16）（均为16（abor）。