GA Optimization of an Hexapod Robot Parameters for Periodic Gaits

Different strategies have been adopted for the optimization of legged robots, either during their design and construction phases, or during their operation. Evolutionary strategies are a way to "imitate nature" replicating the process that nature designed for the generation and evolution o...

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Main Author: Silva, Manuel (author)
Other Authors: Barbosa, Ramiro (author), Tenreiro Machado, J. A. (author)
Format: conferenceObject
Language:eng
Published: 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/13648
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:recipp.ipp.pt:10400.22/13648
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Summary:Different strategies have been adopted for the optimization of legged robots, either during their design and construction phases, or during their operation. Evolutionary strategies are a way to "imitate nature" replicating the process that nature designed for the generation and evolution of species. This paper presents a genetic algorithm, running over a simulation application of legged robots, allowing the optimization of several locomotion, model and controller parameters, for different locomotion speeds and hexapod periodic gaits. Here are studied the model and locomotion parameters that optimize the robot performance, in a large range of distinct velocities, when the robot walks with distinct periodic gaits.