Crossing the reality gap in evolutionary robotics by promoting transferable controllers

Proceedings of the 12th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO '10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 119-126

  Koos, Sylvain ^a   Mouret, Jean Baptiste ^a   Doncieux, Stéphane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Experimentation

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ISSUES; EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; EXPERIMENTATION; MULTI OBJECTIVE EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MULTI-OBJECTIVE FORMULATION; QUADRUPEDAL ROBOT; REAL SYSTEMS; REAL-WORLD PROBLEM;

CONTROLLERS; EXPERIMENTS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77955909143     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1830483.1830505     Document Type: Conference Paper

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