Lukasiewicz´ insect: the role of continuous-valued logic in a mobile robot´s sensors, control, and locomotion

The ability to physically realize a colony of insect-like robots presents numerous problems. A hexapod robot controlled by a computational sensor is proposed as a solution to some of these problems. Stiquito is a small nitinol-propelled robot. It is controlled by a computational sensor implemented with Lukasiewicz logic arrays (LLAs). The computational sensor includes an electronic retina, an implicit controller, and a gait generator. Measured and simulated results illustrate the unifying effect of Lukasiewicz logic on the design of the robotic system