Morphological evolution of freeform robots

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 153-154

  Hiller, Jonathan D ^a   Lipson, Hod ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Amorphous; Continuous; Flexible; Freeform; Locomotion; Relaxation; Robot; Soft body

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS; CONTINUOUS; FLEXIBLE; FREEFORMS; LOCOMOTION; RELAXATION; SOFT-BODIES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITATION; ROBOTS;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS;

EID: 77955912477     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1830483.1830510     Document Type: Conference Paper

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