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ICRA
2000
IEEE
94views Robotics» more  ICRA 2000»
15 years 2 months ago
Extremal Trajectories for Bounded Velocity Differential Drive Robots
This paper applies Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle to the time optimal control of differential drive mobile robots with velocity bounds. The Maximum Principle gives necessary con...
Devin J. Balkcom, Matthew T. Mason
CEC
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Evolutionary optimization of a bipedal gait in a physical robot
— Evolutionary optimization of a gait for a bipedal robot has been studied, combining structural and parametric modifications of the system responsible for generating the gait. ...
Krister Wolff, David Sandberg, Mattias Wahde
CDC
2010
IEEE
109views Control Systems» more  CDC 2010»
14 years 4 months ago
On-line optimal timing control of switched systems
This paper considers a real-time algorithm for performance optimization of switched-mode hybrid dynamical systems. The controlled parameter consists of the switching times between ...
Yorai Wardi, Philip Twu, Magnus Egerstedt
RSS
2007
135views Robotics» more  RSS 2007»
14 years 11 months ago
Learning omnidirectional path following using dimensionality reduction
Abstract— We consider the task of omnidirectional path following for a quadruped robot: moving a four-legged robot along any arbitrary path while turning in any arbitrary manner....
J. Zico Kolter, Andrew Y. Ng
CEC
2010
IEEE
14 years 10 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