Dual dynamics: Designing behavior systems for autonomous robots

This paper describes the “dual dynamics” (DD) design scheme for robotic behavior control systems. Behaviors are formally specified as dynamical systems using differential equations. A key idea for the DD scheme is that a robotic agent can work in different “modes,” which lead to qualitatively different behavioral patterns. Mathematically, transitions between modes are bifurcations in the control system. This work was presented, in part, at the Second International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, Oita, Japan, February 18–20, 1997