Modular neuroevolution for multilegged locomotion

GECCO'08: Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 265-272

  Valsalam, Vinod K ^a   Miikkulainen, Risto ^a  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Controllers; Coupled cell systems; Locomotion; Modular neuroevolution; Multilegged robots

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; CONTROLLERS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); NEURAL NETWORKS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

COUPLED CELLS; DESIGN CONTROLLERS; EVOLVING NEURAL NETWORK; LOCOMOTION CONTROLLERS; MULTI-LEGGED LOCOMOTIONS; MULTI-LEGGED ROBOTS; NEURO EVOLUTIONS; REALISTIC SIMULATION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 57349194567     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1389095.1389136     Document Type: Conference Paper

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