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ICRA
2003
IEEE
107views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
15 years 9 months ago
A miniature inspection robot negotiating pipes of widely varying diameter
The purpose of this research is to realize a small robot which can negotiate pipes whose diameter varies widely during the robot’s course. A new in-pipe locomotion mechanism nam...
Koichi Suzumori, Shuichi Wakimoto, Masanori Takata
GECCO
2009
Springer
175views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
15 years 8 months ago
Evolving soft robotic locomotion in PhysX
Given the complexity of the problem, genetic algorithms are one of the more promising methods of discovering control schemes for soft robotics. Since physically embodied evolution...
John Rieffel, Frank Saunders, Shilpa Nadimpalli, H...
CEC
2010
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Exploring the Kuramoto model of coupled oscillators in minimally cognitive evolutionary robotics tasks
— This work is the first attempt to investigate the neural dynamics of a simulated robotic agent engaged in minimally cognitive tasks by employing evolved instances of the Kuram...
Renan C. Moioli, Patrícia Amâncio Var...
NN
2008
Springer
114views Neural Networks» more  NN 2008»
15 years 4 months ago
Event detection and localization for small mobile robots using reservoir computing
Reservoir Computing (RC) techniques use a fixed (usually randomly created) recurrent neural network, or more generally any dynamic system, which operates at the edge of stability,...
Eric A. Antonelo, Benjamin Schrauwen, Dirk Strooba...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
133views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
Variable resolution decomposition for robotic navigation under a POMDP framework
— Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) offer a powerful mathematical framework for making optimal action choices in noisy and/or uncertain environments, in par...
Robert Kaplow, Amin Atrash, Joelle Pineau