Crowding and mutation improvements in an ea for flight control correction in a flapping-wing vehicle

JC Gallagher, MW Oppenheimer… - 2023 IEEE Symposium …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Small Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicles (FW-MA Vs) may be subjected to either or both of
manufacturing defects or in-service damage that render their pre-designed controllers less …

Real-Time Learning of Wing Motion Correction in an Unconstrained Flapping-Wing Air Vehicle

JC Gallagher, ET Matson… - 2022 Sixth IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Small Flapping-Wing Micro-Air Vehicles (FW-MAVs) can experience wing damage and wear
while in service. Even small amounts of wing can prevent the vehicle from attaining desired …

Improvements to speed and efficacy in non-stationary learning in a flapping-wing air vehicle: constrained and unconstrained flight

JC Gallagher, M Sam - 2021 IEEE Symposium Series on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Small Flapping-Wing Micro-Air Vehicles (FW-MA Vs) may experience wing damage and
wear while in service with even small amounts introducing significant deficits in maintaining …

Improvements to evolutionary model consistency checking for a flapping-wing micro air vehicle

JC Gallagher, S Boddhu, E Matson… - … on Evolvable Systems, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evolutionary Computation has been suggested as a means of providing ongoing adaptation
of robot controllers. Most often, using Evolutionary Computation to that end focuses on …

Repeat Trial Analysis of an EA for Flight Control Correction and Control Model Extraction in a Flapping-Wing Vehicle

JC Gallagher, MW Oppenheimer… - 2023 Seventh IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicles (FW-MAVs) may lose the ability to reliably follow waypoint
trajectories because ongoing accumulation of wing damage can render invalid the system …

Islands of fitness compact genetic algorithm for rapid in-flight control learning in a flapping-wing micro air vehicle: A search space reduction approach

KE Duncan, SK Boddhu, M Sam… - … on Evolvable Systems, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
On-going effective control of insect-scale Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicles could be
significantly advantaged by active in-flight control adaptation. Previous work demonstrated …

Evolutionary strategy approach for improved in-flight control learning in a simulated Insect-Scale Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicle

M Sam, SK Boddhu, KE Duncan… - … on Evolvable Systems, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Insect-Scale Flapping-Wing Micro-Air Vehicles (FW-MAVs), can be particularly sensitive to
control deficits caused by ongoing wing damage and degradation. Since any such …

Learning Time Improvements to an Evolutionary Algorithm for Online, Non-Stationary, Optimization of Flight Control in a Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle

JC Gallagher - NAECON 2021-IEEE National Aerospace and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Small Flapping-Wing Micro-Air Vehicles (FW-MAVs) can experience wing damage and wear
while in service. Even small amounts of such damage require significant adaptation of on …

A demonstration of core-model independence in evolutionary model consistency checking

JC Gallagher, E Matson - 2019 Third IEEE International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evolutionary Model Consistency Checking (EMCC) is a previously introduced adjunct to
Evolvable and Adaptive Hardware (EAH) methods. In EMCC, the objective function …

Drag force fault extension to evolutionary model consistency checking for a flapping-wing micro air vehicle

JC Gallagher, M Sam, S Boddhu… - 2016 IEEE Congress …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Previously, we introduced Evolutionary Model Consistency Checking (EMCC) as an adjunct
to Evolvable and Adaptive Hardware (EAH) methods. The core idea was to dual-purpose …