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ICRA
1998
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Biologically Inspired Robot Grasping Using Genetic Programming
This paper describes the innovative use of a genetic algorithm to solve the grasp synthesis problem for multifingered robot hands. The goal of our algorithm is to select a `best&#...
Jaime J. Fernandez, Ian D. Walker
TIP
2008
144views more  TIP 2008»
13 years 5 months ago
Minimization of Region-Scalable Fitting Energy for Image Segmentation
Intensity inhomogeneities often occur in real-world images and may cause considerable difficulties in image segmentation. In order to overcome the difficulties caused by intensity ...
Chunming Li, Chiu-Yen Kao, John C. Gore, Zhaohua D...
IROS
2008
IEEE
151views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
A performance sensitive hormone-inspired system for task distribution amongst evolving robots
— A hormone-inspired task scheduling method is described which assigns tasks to a group of robots, taking into account the robots’ performances. This method draws on previous w...
Joanne H. Walker, Myra S. Wilson
CEC
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Evolvable mechanics: Hardware tools for evolutionary robotics
Embodying robot morphologies evolved in simulation can present serious problems for an engineer when translating simplified simulated mechanisms into working devices, often drawing...
Bill Bigge Inman, R. Harvey
CIRA
2007
IEEE
135views Robotics» more  CIRA 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Morphological Evolution of Dynamic Structures in a 3-Dimensional Simulated Environment
— The results presented in this paper are a part of the second phase of a body of research with the goal of coevolving the mind and morphology of dynamic robots. We use a 3-Dimen...
Gary B. Parker, Dejan Duzevik, Andrey S. Anev, Ram...