Evolutionary synthesis of dynamic motion and reconfiguration process for a modular robot M-TRAN

Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, CIRA

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1004-1010

  Yoshida, Eiichi ^a   Murata, Satoshi ^b   Kamimura, Akiya ^a   Tomita, Kohji ^a   Kurokawa, Haruhisa ^a   Kokaji, Shigeru ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CPG; Evolutionary computation; Genetic algorithms; Modular robotics; Motion generation; Self reconfiguration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER HARDWARE; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HARDWARE; MODULAR ROBOTS; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; ROBOTS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CPG; GA (GENETIC ALGORITHM); GENETIC REPRESENTATIONS; MODULAR ROBOTICS; MOTION GENERATION; RECONFIGURATION PROCESS; SELF RECONFIGURATION; SELF-RECONFIGURABLE MODULAR ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 34648864005     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIRA.2003.1222317     Document Type: Conference Paper

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