Evolutionary robotics and the radical envelope-of-noise hypothesis
Adaptive Behavior
Evolutionary Design by Computers with CDrom
Evolutionary Design by Computers with CDrom
Proceedings of the First European Workshop on Evolutionary Robotics
Proceedings of the First European Workshop on Evolutionary Robotics
Evolutionary Robotics: A Survey of Applications and Problems
Proceedings of the First European Workshop on Evolutionary Robotics
GECCO '05 Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
Innately adaptive robotics through embodied evolution
Autonomous Robots
Genetic programming incorporating biased mutation for evolution and adaptation of Snakebot
Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines
Co-evolution of active sensing and locomotion gaits of simulated snake-like robot
Proceedings of the 10th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
Challenges of evolvable hardware: past, present and the path to a promising future
Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines
EuroGP'05 Proceedings of the 8th European conference on Genetic Programming
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The objective of this work is to investigate how effective smart materials are for generating the motion of a robot. Because of the unique method of locomotion, an evolutionary algorithm is used to evolve the best combination of smart wire activations to move most efficiently. For this purpose, a robot snake was built that uses Nitinol wire as muscles in order to move. The most successful method of locomotion that was evolved, closely resembled the undulating motion of the cobra snake. During experimentation, one of the four Nitinol wires snapped, and the algorithm then enabled adaptive behaviour by the robot by evolving another sequence of muscle activations that more closely resembled the undulations exhibited by the earthworm.