Evolving gaits for physical robots with the HyperNEAT generative encoding: The benefits of simulation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7835 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 540-549

  Lee, Suchan ^a   Yosinski, Jason ^a   Glette, Kyrre ^b   Lipson, Hod ^a   Clune, Jeff ^a,c  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); SIGNAL ENCODING;

ENCODINGS; ENGINEERING CHALLENGES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HYPERNEAT; PHYSICAL ROBOTS; REAL ROBOT; REAL-WORLD; SIMULATED ROBOT;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84875639213     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37192-9_54     Document Type: Conference Paper

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