Multifunctional physical reservoir computing in soft tensegrity robots

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21496v1
• Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2025 04:33:02 GMT
• Title: Multifunctional physical reservoir computing in soft tensegrity robots
• Authors: Ryo Terajima, Katsuma Inoue, Kohei Nakajima, Yasuo Kuniyoshi,
• Abstract summary: Recent studies have demonstrated that the dynamics of physical systems can be utilized for the desired information processing.<n>In this study, we extend this approach to control and embed not only one but also multiple behaviors into a type of soft robot called a tensegrity robot.<n>We show that there exist "untrained attractors" in the state space of the system outside the training data.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent studies have demonstrated that the dynamics of physical systems can be utilized for the desired information processing under the framework of physical reservoir computing (PRC). Robots with soft bodies are examples of such physical systems, and their nonlinear body-environment dynamics can be used to compute and generate the motor signals necessary for the control of their own behavior. In this simulation study, we extend this approach to control and embed not only one but also multiple behaviors into a type of soft robot called a tensegrity robot. The resulting system, consisting of the robot and the environment, is a multistable dynamical system that converges to different attractors from varying initial conditions. Furthermore, attractor analysis reveals that there exist "untrained attractors" in the state space of the system outside the training data. These untrained attractors reflect the intrinsic properties and structures of the tensegrity robot and its interactions with the environment. The impacts of these recent findings in PRC remain unexplored in embodied AI research. We here illustrate their potential to understand various features of embodied cognition that have not been fully addressed to date.

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