Combining evolutionary and adaptive control strategies for quadruped robotic locomotion

E Massi, L Vannucci, U Albanese… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In traditional robotics, model-based controllers are usually needed in order to bring a robotic
plant to the next desired state, but they present critical issues when the dimensionality of the …

Effect of compliance on morphological control of dynamic locomotion with HyQ

G Urbain, V Barasuol, C Semini, J Dambre… - Autonomous …, 2021 - Springer
Classic control theory applied to compliant and soft robots generally involves an increment
of computation that has no equivalent in biology. To tackle this, morphological computation …

Body randomization reduces the sim-to-real gap for compliant quadruped locomotion

A Vandesompele, G Urbain, H Mahmud… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Designing controllers for compliant, underactuated robots is challenging and usually
requires a learning procedure. Learning robotic control in simulated environments can …

Minimizing torque requirements in robotic manipulation through elastic elements optimization in a physics engine

M Marchal, D Marzougui, R Furnémont… - International …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The increasing number of robots and the rising cost of electricity have spurred research into
energy-reducing concepts in robotics. One such concept, elastic actuation, introduces …

Reservoir computing with plants

O Pieters - 2022 - biblio.ugent.be
Planten zijn complexe organismen, onderhevig aan een groot aantal omgevingsvariabelen,
dewelke op hun beurt de fysiologie en het fenotype van de plant beïnvloeden. In ons werk …

[PDF][PDF] wyffels, F., and Dambre, J.(2019). Body randomization reduces the sim-to-real gap for compliant quadruped locomotion

A Vandesompele, G Urbain… - Front. Neurorobot. 13: 9 …, 2019 - academia.edu
Designing controllers for compliant, underactuated robots is challenging and usually
requires a learning procedure. Learning robotic control in simulated environments can …