Evolutionary synthesis of grasping through self-exploratory movements of a robotic hand

2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3418-3425

  Gómez, Gabriel ^a   Hotz, Peter Eggenberger ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; NEURAL CONTROLLERS; REALISTIC SIMULATORS; SCREWDRIVER; VALUE SYSTEMS;

CONTROL EQUIPMENT; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; ROBUST CONTROL;

ROBOTIC ARMS;

EID: 67049125065     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2007.4424914     Document Type: Conference Paper

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