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RAS
2007
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Programmable springs: Developing actuators with programmable compliance for autonomous robots
Developing real robots that can exploit dynamic interactions with the environment requires the use of actuators whose behaviour can vary from high stiffness to complete complianc...
Bill Bigge, Inman R. Harvey
RAS
2006
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Aibo and Webots: Simulation, wireless remote control and controller transfer
This article introduces a new software tool that provides an accurate simulation of Sony Aibo robots and the capability to transfer controller programs from the simulation to the ...
Lukas Hohl, Ricardo A. Téllez, Olivier Mich...
AIPS
2000
14 years 26 days ago
Vision-Servoed Localization and Behavior-Based Planning for an Autonomous Quadruped Legged Robot
Planning for real robots to act in dynamic and uncertain environments is a challenging problem. A complete model of the world is not viable and an integration of deliberation and ...
Manuela M. Veloso, Elly Winner, Scott Lenser, Jame...
AAAI
1998
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A Framework for Reinforcement Learning on Real Robots
Learning on real robots in an real, unaltered environment provides an extremely challenging problem. Many of the simplifying assumptions made in other areas of learning cannot be ...
William D. Smart, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
EVOW
1998
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Evolutionary Robotics: A Survey of Applications and Problems
This paper reviews evolutionary approaches to the automatic design of real robots exhibiting a given behavior in a given environment. Such a methodology has been successfully appl...
Jean-Arcady Meyer, Phil Husbands, Inman Harvey
EH
2003
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Researches on Ingeniously Behaving Agents
We have been studying the techniques for evolutionary robotics and experimenting with various robots applied evolutionary methods. We have paid special attentions to real robots a...
Shotaro Kamio, Hongwei Liu, Hideyuki Mitsuhasi, Hi...
KI
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Making a Robot Learn to Play Soccer Using Reward and Punishment
In this paper, we show how reinforcement learning can be applied to real robots to achieve optimal robot behavior. As example, we enable an autonomous soccer robot to learn interce...
Heiko Müller, Martin Lauer, Roland Hafner, Sa...