AUTHOR=Frazier P. Adrian , Jamone Lorenzo , Althoefer Kaspar , Calvo Paco 

TITLE=Plant Bioinspired Ecological Robotics

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Robotics and AI

VOLUME=Volume 7 - 2020

YEAR=2020

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/robotics-and-ai/articles/10.3389/frobt.2020.00079

DOI=10.3389/frobt.2020.00079

ISSN=2296-9144

ABSTRACT=Plants move. But the nature of their movement differs dramatically from that of creatures that move their whole body from Point A to Point B. Plants grow to where they are going, and they extend themselves out and away from any one place. Bio-inspired robotics sometimes emulate plants’ growth-based movement, but growing is part of a broader system of movement guidance and control. We argue that ecological psychology’s conception of information and control and can simultaneously make sense of what it means for a plant to navigate its environment and provide a control scheme for the design of ecological plant-inspired robotics. In this effort, we will outline several control laws and give special consideration to the class of control laws identified by tau theory, such as time to contact.