Evolving soft robotic locomotion in PhysX

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO-2009

Volumn 2009-January, Issue , 2009, Pages 2499-2504

  Rieffel, John ^a   Saunders, Frank ^b   Nadimpalli, Shilpa ^c   Zhou, Harvey ^c   Hassoun, Soha ^c   Rife, Jason ^b   Trimmer, Barry ^d  

^a Biomimetic Devices Lab

^b Mechanical Engineering Department

^c Computer Science Department ^*

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

caterpillar; PhysX; soft robot

Indexed keywords

PROGRAM PROCESSORS; ROBOTICS;

CATERPILLAR; CONTROL SCHEMES; EMBODIED EVOLUTION; PARALLEL METHOD; PHYSX; REALISTIC SIMULATION; ROBOT GAITS; ROBOTIC LOCOMOTIONS; SOFT ROBOT; SOFT ROBOTICS;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 85133067589     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1570256.1570351     Document Type: Conference Paper

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