Artificial evolution of the morphology and kinematics in a flap**-wing mini-UAV

E De Margerie, JB Mouret, S Doncieux… - Bioinspiration & …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Birds demonstrate that flap**-wing flight (FWF) is a versatile flight mode, compatible with
hovering, forward flight and gliding to save energy. This extended flight domain would be …

The technology of the gaps: an evolvable hardware synthesized oscillator for the control of a flap**-wing micro air vehicle

JC Gallagher, DB Doman… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To date, work in evolvable and adaptive hardware (EAH) has been largely isolated from
primary inclusion into larger design processes. Almost without exception, EAH efforts are …

An improved evolvable oscillator and basis function set for control of an insect-scale flap**-wing micro air vehicle

JC Gallagher, MW Oppenheimer - Journal of Computer Science and …, 2012 - Springer
This paper introduces an improved evolvable and adaptive hardware oscillator design
capable of supporting adaptation intended to restore control precision in damaged or …

[PDF][PDF] Towards evolvable hovering flight on a physical ornithopter

W Regan, F Van Breugel, H Lipson - Alife X, Bloomington, USA, 2006 - researchgate.net
By presenting the first combination of evolution of simulation and hardware implementation
of a hovering flap** ornithopter, this paper paves the way towards achieving artificial flight …

Evolved neuromorphic flight control for a flap**-wing mechanical insect model

SK Boddhu, C Gallagher - 2008 IEEE Congress on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper examines the feasibility of evolving analog neuromorphic devices to control flight
in a realistic flap**-wing mechanical insect model. It will summarize relevant prior results …

[PDF][PDF] Fluidic Muscle Ornithopter

A Canga, M Delia, A Hyman, A Nagelin - A Major Qualifying Project …, 2015 - digital.wpi.edu
The scope of the project was to create an ornithopter, a bio-inspired flap** wing
mechanism to produce lift. The developed system utilizes pneumatics as the pressure …

Evolving neuromorphic flight control for a flap**‐wing mechanical insect

SK Boddhu, JC Gallagher - International Journal of Intelligent …, 2010 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to present an approach to employ evolvable hardware
concepts, to effectively construct flap**‐wing mechanism controllers for micro robots, with …

Evolving non-autonomous neuromorphic flight control for a flap**-wing mechanical insect

SK Boddhu, JC Gallagher - 2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolvable …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the previous work, it was demonstrated that one can effectively employ CTRNN-EH (a
neuromorphic variant of EH method) methodology to evolve autonomous neuromorphic …

Efficient and resilient micro air vehicle flap** wing gait evolution for hover and trajectory control

AA Menezes, PT Kabamba - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper deploys a recently proposed, biologically inspired, on-line, search-based
optimization technique called Selective Evolutionary Generation Systems (SEGS) for control …

[PDF][PDF] Digital control networks for virtual creatures

CJ Bainbridge - 2010 - core.ac.uk
Robot control systems evolved with genetic algorithms traditionally take the form of floating-
point neural network models. This thesis proposes that digital control systems, such as …