Strange attractors, Kinematic Trajectories and Synchronization

In this communication the emergent behavior of clusters of robots with chaotic kinematics attractors is shown. Even if the aim of the research started from the study of the cooperative behavior of inspection robots, the reported results (including also the role of chaotic synchronization in the generation of the kinematics trajectory), show new aesthetic features of the motion in mechanical control systems.

[1]  Xinghuo Yu,et al.  Design and analysis of multiscroll chaotic attractors from saturated function series , 2004, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers.

[2]  Joseph B. Kopena,et al.  Mobile robot labs , 2003, IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag..

[3]  S. Boccaletti,et al.  Synchronization of chaotic systems , 2001 .

[4]  Frank Klassner,et al.  LEGO MindStorms: not just for K-12 anymore , 2003, IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag..

[5]  Leon O. Chua,et al.  CNN: A Vision of Complexity , 1997 .

[6]  O Viet,et al.  Kinetic art and mechanical chaos , 1983 .

[7]  Luigi Fortuna,et al.  From Local Activity Lemma Beyond the Wave Computation Reaction-diffusion CNN Based Networks , 2006, Int. J. Bifurc. Chaos.

[8]  Luigi Fortuna,et al.  The CNN Paradigm: Shapes and Complexity , 2005, Int. J. Bifurc. Chaos.

[9]  Jürgen Kurths,et al.  Synchronization: Phase locking and frequency entrainment , 2001 .