Evolving coordinated quadruped gaits with the hyperNEAT generative encoding

2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2764-2771

  Clune, Jeff ^a   Beckmann, Benjamin E ^a   Ofria, Charles ^a   Pennock, Robert T ^a,b  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; CONTROL SOFTWARE; DIRECT ENCODING; ENCODINGS; EVOLVING NEURAL NETWORK; GENETIC OPERATORS; GEOMETRIC SYMMETRY; HYPERNEAT; LEGGED ROBOTS; POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS; ROUGH TERRAINS;

COORDINATION REACTIONS; DECOMPOSITION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); MACHINE DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; NEURAL NETWORKS; ROBOTICS;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 70450059665     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2009.4983289     Document Type: Conference Paper

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