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TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Randomized Optimal Design of Parallel Manipulators
This work intends to deal with the optimal kinematic synthesis problem of parallel manipulators under a unified framework. Observing that regular (e.g., hyper-rectangular) workspac...
Yunjiang Lou, Guanfeng Liu, Zexiang Li
EMSOFT
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Real-time interfaces for composing real-time systems
Recently, a number of frameworks were proposed to extend interface theory to the domains of single-processor and distributed real-time systems. This paper unifies some of these ap...
Lothar Thiele, Ernesto Wandeler, Nikolay Stoimenov
AI50
2006
13 years 11 months ago
The iCub  Cognitive Humanoid Robot: An Open-System Research Platform for Enactive Cognition
Abstract. This paper describes a multi-disciplinary initiative to promote collaborative research in enactive artificial cognitive systems by developing the iCub : a open-systems 53...
Giulio Sandini, Giorgio Metta, David Vernon
GECCO
2005
Springer
142views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
14 years 27 days ago
Toward evolved flight
We present the first hardware-in-the-loop evolutionary optimization on an ornithopter. Our experiments demonstrate the feasibility of evolving flight through genetic algorithms an...
Rusty Hunt, Gregory Hornby, Jason D. Lohn
GECCO
2009
Springer
122views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
14 years 1 months ago
Evolving symmetric and modular neural networks for distributed control
Problems such as the design of distributed controllers are characterized by modularity and symmetry. However, the symmetries useful for solving them are often difficult to determ...
Vinod K. Valsalam, Risto Miikkulainen