Challenges and opportunities for design, simulation, and fabrication of soft robots

H Lipson - Soft Robotics, 2014 - liebertpub.com
This article describes new opportunities in soft robotics and some potential avenues to
overcome challenges associated with the realization of these opportunities. New …

Beyond robustness: A taxonomy of approaches towards resilient multi-robot systems

A Prorok, M Malencia, L Carlone, GS Sukhatme… - ar** elites
JB Mouret, J Clune - arxiv preprint arxiv:1504.04909, 2015 - arxiv.org
Many fields use search algorithms, which automatically explore a search space to find high-
performing solutions: chemists search through the space of molecules to discover new …

Unshackling evolution: evolving soft robots with multiple materials and a powerful generative encoding

N Cheney, R MacCurdy, J Clune, H Lipson - ACM SIGEVOlution, 2014 - dl.acm.org
In 1994, Karl Sims' evolved virtual creatures showed the potential of evolutionary algorithms
to produce natural, complex morphologies and behaviors [30]. One might assume that …

[LIBRO][B] Bio-inspired artificial intelligence: theories, methods, and technologies

D Floreano, C Mattiussi - 2008 - books.google.com
A comprehensive introduction to new approaches in artificial intelligence and robotics that
are inspired by self-organizing biological processes and structures. New approaches to …

Real-world embodied AI through a morphologically adaptive quadruped robot

TF Nygaard, CP Martin, J Torresen, K Glette… - Nature Machine …, 2021 - nature.com
Robots are traditionally bound by a fixed morphology during their operational lifetime, which
is limited to adapting only their control strategies. Here we present the first quadrupedal …

Design and control of tensegrity robots for locomotion

C Paul, FJ Valero-Cuevas… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The static properties of tensegrity structures have been widely appreciated in civil
engineering as the basis of extremely lightweight yet strong mechanical structures …

Special section on multidisciplinary design optimization: multidisciplinary design optimization of dynamic engineering systems

JT Allison, DR Herber - AIAA journal, 2014 - arc.aiaa.org
Dynamic engineering systems are playing an increasingly important role in society,
especially as active and autonomous dynamic systems become more mature and prevalent …

Efficient automatic design of robots

D Matthews, A Spielberg, D Rus, S Kriegman… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
Robots are notoriously difficult to design because of complex interdependencies between
their physical structure, sensory and motor layouts, and behavior. Despite this, almost every …

Automated antenna design with evolutionary algorithms

G Hornby, A Globus, D Linden, J Lohn - Space 2006, 2006 - arc.aiaa.org
Whereas the current practice of designing antennas by hand is severely limited because it is
both time and labor intensive and requires a significant amount of domain knowledge …