Robot design for space missions using evolutionary computation

2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2098-2105

  Römmerman, Malte ^a   Kühn, Daniel ^a   Kirchner, Frank ^a  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN PROCESS; ENERGY EFFICIENT; EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATIONS; LEGGED ROBOTS; MECHANICAL CONSTRUCTION; PHYSICAL SIMULATION; REAL ROBOT; ROBOT DESIGNS; ROBOT MORPHOLOGY; SIMULATION TOOL; SPACE MISSIONS; STABLE LOCOMOTION; TIME-CONSUMING TASKS; WALKING PATTERN;

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; INVERSE KINEMATICS; MORPHOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 70450126153     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2009.4983200     Document Type: Conference Paper

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