A Method of accelerating convergence for genetic algorithms evolving morphological and control parameters for a biomimetic robot

ICARA 2009 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 155-160

  Saunders, Frank ^a   Rieffel, John ^a   Rife, Jason ^a  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIO-MIMETIC ROBOT; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CONTROL COMMAND; CONTROL PARAMETERS; CONVERGENCE SPEED; DESIGN APPLICATIONS; DYNAMICS SIMULATION; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; FITNESS FUNCTIONS; FITNESS LANDSCAPE; HIGH DIMENSIONALITY; INTERNAL DYNAMICS; NEW PHYSICS; PHYSICS-BASED; ROBOT CONTROLS; ROBOT MORPHOLOGY;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; BIOMIMETICS; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING; FUNCTION EVALUATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MORPHOLOGY; ROBOTS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 66149175670     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICARA.2000.4803935     Document Type: Conference Paper

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