The utility of evolving simulated robot morphology increases with task complexity for object manipulation

Artificial Life

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 201-223

  Bongard, Josh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Embodied artificial intelligence; Embodied cognition; Evolutionary robotics; Multi objective optimization; Robot shaping

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGY; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTICS;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; EMBODIED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; EMBODIED COGNITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; OBJECT MANIPULATION; SELECTIVE PRESSURE;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; ARM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HAND; HUMAN; ROBOTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY; ARM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HAND; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); ROBOTICS;

EID: 77956198710     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: 15309185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/artl.2010.Bongard.024     Document Type: Article

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