A comparative study between genetic algorithm and genetic programming based gait generation methods for quadruped robots

  • Authors:
  • Kisung Seo;Soohwan Hyun

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Seokyeong University, Seoul, Korea;Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Seokyeong University, Seoul, Korea

  • Venue:
  • EvoApplicatons'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Planning gaits for legged robots is a challenging task that requires optimizing parameters in a highly irregular and multidimensional space. Two gait generation methods using GA (Genetic Algorithm), GP (genetic programming) are compared to develop fast locomotion for a quadruped robot. GA-based approaches seek to optimize a pre-selected set of parameters which include locus of paw and stance parameters of initial position. A GP-based technique is an effective way to generate a few joint trajectories instead of the locus of paw positions and many stance parameters. Optimizations for two proposed methods are executed and analyzed using a Webots simulation of the quadruped robot built by Bioloid. Furthermore, simulation results for the two proposed methods are tested in a real quadruped robot, and the performance and motion features of GA-, GP -based methods are compared.