Programming Symmetric Platonic Beast Robots

We describe a new class of high degree of freedom, spherically symmetric legged robots called “Platonic Beasts”, and programming alternatives for coordinated locomotion in these robots. The project is motivated by applications of robotics in hazardous, uncertain environments, theoretical issues in legged locomotion, and issues in programming high degree of freedom robots.

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