Coupled inverted pendulums: A benchmark for evolving decentral controllers in modular robotics

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 195-202

  Hamann, Heiko ^a   Schmickl, Thomas ^a   Crailsheim, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Theory

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CONTROLLER DESIGNS; DECENTRAL CONTROL; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; FITNESS LANDSCAPE; INVERTED PENDULUM; LOCAL OPTIMA; MODULAR ROBOTICS; MULTIROBOTS; ROBOT CONTROLLER; SCIENTIFIC FIELDS; THEORY;

CONFERENCE CALLS; CONTROLLERS; ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84860388820     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2001576.2001604     Document Type: Conference Paper

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