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CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Beyond record and play: backpacks: tangible modulators for kinetic behavior
Digital Manipulatives embed computation in familiar children's toys and provide means for children to design behavior. Some systems use "record and play" as a form ...
Hayes Raffle, Amanda J. Parkes, Hiroshi Ishii, Jos...
SAC
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
I4Copter: an adaptable and modular quadrotor platform
Quadrotor helicopters are micro air vehicles with vertical take-off and landing capabilities controlled by varying the rotation speed of four fixed pitch propellers. Due to their...
Peter Ulbrich, Rüdiger Kapitza, Christian Har...
GECCO
2008
Springer
138views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Modular neuroevolution for multilegged locomotion
Legged robots are useful in tasks such as search and rescue because they can effectively navigate on rugged terrain. However, it is difficult to design controllers for them that ...
Vinod K. Valsalam, Risto Miikkulainen
IROS
2008
IEEE
117views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
Kinodynamic motion planning with hardware demonstrations
Abstract— This paper provides proof-of-concept that stateof-the-art sampling-based motion planners that are tightly integrated with a physics-based simulator can compute paths th...
Ioan Alexandru Sucan, Jonathan F. Kruse, Mark Yim,...
ECAL
2005
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Co-evolution of Structures and Controllers for Neubot Underwater Modular Robots
Abstract. This article presents the first results of a project in underwater modular robotics, called Neubots. The goals of the projects are to explore, following Von Neumann’s ...
Barthélémy von Haller, Auke Jan Ijsp...