Evolving flexible joint morphologies

GECCO'12 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 145-152

  Moore, Jared M ^a   McKinley, Philip K ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

evolutionary robotics; morphological evolution; morphology; simulation

Indexed keywords

3D PRINTERS; EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; FLEXIBLE JOINTS; MODELING MATERIAL PROPERTIES; MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; PASSIVE JOINTS; PHYSICAL COMPOSITION; PHYSICAL ROBOTS; REAL ROBOT; SIMULATION; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT; VIRTUAL ROBOTICS; VIRTUAL ROBOTS;

MACHINE DESIGN; MODELS; ROBOTICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 84864675882     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2330163.2330184     Document Type: Conference Paper

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