Rodney: Genetic Walking
Rodney is a six-legged walking machine.
This platform has been used to explore the use of Genetic
Algorithms for the development of neural oscillator circuits
that can produce walking movements. A primary contribution of
this work is the idea applying staged learning as a way
of attacking the high-dimensionality of the search space.
Participants: Tony Lewis and
Andrew Fagg
References
Lewis, M. A., Fagg, A. H., Bekey, G. A.,
Genetic Algorithms for Gait Synthesis in
a Hexapod Robot, in Recent Trends
in Mobile Robots, Y. Zheng Ed., Chapter 11,
pp. 317-331
Lewis, M. A., Fagg, A. H., Solidum, A.,
Genetic
Programming Approach to the Construction of a Neural
Network for Control of a Walking Robot
the Proceedings of the 1992 IEEE Conference on Robotics and
Automation, May, Nice, France
This project ended in 1993. If you are interested in this project please
send email to either
fagg@cs.umass.edu or tlewis@uiuc.edu