Abstract:
The invention concerns a new method of controlling the movements of a multi-actuator electromechanical system which has a matrix of locally interconnected analog cells associated therewith. Each cell represents a hardware implementation of a model of fuzzy inference rules. The model is constructed as a fuzzy circuit architecture which is implemented, preferably, in the form of an integrated circuit with VLSI CMOS technology which generates and controls the reaction diffusion mechanism typical of auto-waves by means of a fuzzy neural network. This fuzzy neural network defines the functional relationships which can duplicate simultaneous reaction diffusion equations, and the duplication of such simultaneous equations is provided by two sets of fuzzy rules processing, in a linguistic manner, the state variables of the cell plurality and imposing on each cell a dynamics of the oscillatory type wherein two dynamic processes having different kynetic characteristics coexist.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an integrated cellular network structure, being programmable to solve partial derivative differential equations in order to control a phenomenon of diffusion or a propagation of electric drive pulses for robot actuators. Advantageously, such structure comprises analog and digital portions interconnected with each other; the analog portion includes a matrix array (6) of analog cells (2) arranged to receive data from an I/O interface (7), and the digital portion includes first and second memory arrays (8,9) for storing a desired configuration and the initial state of such analog matrix array (6), respectively.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a new method for the control of movement which takes its idea from the principles on which the movement of certain biological organisms are founded. The proposed approach also permits the development of robotic architecture equipped with a revolutionary analogic system of locomotion, inspired by biological walking. The circuital embodiment of such system of locomotion is made concrete with the possibility of circuitally implementing a model of equations of the reaction diffusion type capable of generating, for certain combinations of parameters, initial conditions and boundary conditions, signals of auto-wave or spatial pattern type for the control of movement.