Leveraging multiple simulators for crossing the reality gap

2012 12th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1113-1119

  Boeing, A ^a   Braunl T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

AUV; evolution; evolutionary robotics; fluid dynamics; reailty gap; robot; simulation

Indexed keywords

AUV; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; REAILTY GAP; SIMULATION;

FLUID DYNAMICS; ROBOTS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84876033960     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICARCV.2012.6485313     Document Type: Conference Paper

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