Toward evolved flight

GECCO 2005 - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 957-964

  Hunt, Rusty ^a   Hornby, Gregory S ^a   Lohn, Jason D ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary algorithm; Evolvable hardware; Flapping flight; Hardware in the loop evolution; Ornithopter

Indexed keywords

EVOLVABLE HARDWARE; FLAPPING FLIGHT; HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP EVOLUTION; ORNITHOPTER;

AERODYNAMICS; FEEDBACK; HARDWARE; MOTORS; OPTIMIZATION;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 32444437796     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1068009.1068172     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (10)

1. Lillianthal, O. Birdflight as the Basis of Aviation, Translation from the second edition, Longmans, Green, and Col, London 1911.
2. DeLaurier, J. D. The Development of an Efficient Ornithopter Wing. The Aeronautical Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, May 1993.
3. Schenato, L., Campolo, D., Sastry, S. Controllability Issues in Flapping Flight for Biomimetic Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, December 2003
4. Lohn, Jason D., Hornby, Gregory S., Linden, Derek S. An Evolved Antenna for Deployment on NASA's Space Technology 5 Mission Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2004) June 26-30, 2004, Seattle, Washington.
5. Bugakska, Maddalena D., and Schultz, Alan C. Co-Evolution of Form and Function in the Design of Autonomous Agents: Micro Air Vehicle Project. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2000) July 8-12, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada.
6. Hornby, G. S., Takamura, S., Yamamoto, T., and Fujita, M. Autonomous Evolution of Dynamic Gaits with Two Quadruped Robots. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol 21, No 2, April 2005
7. Augustsson, P., Wolff, K., and Nordlin, P. Creation of a Learning, Flying Robot by Means of Evolution. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2002) July 9-13, 2002, New York, NY.
8. http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Evolution_of_Techn ology/first_wind_tunnels/Tech34.htm
9. Tennekes, H. The Simple Science of Flight - From Insects to Jumbo Jets. MIT Press, 1992.
10. Taylor, Graham K., Nudds, Robert L., Thomas, Adrians L.R. Flying and Swimming Animals Cruise at a Strouhal Number Tuned for High Power Efficiency. Nature 425, (October 16, 2003), 707-711