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No-brainer: Morphological Computation driven Adaptive Behavior in Soft Robots
Alican Mertan, Nick Cheney
It is prevalent in contemporary AI and robotics to separately postulate a brain modeled by neural networks and employ it to learn intelligent and adaptive behavior. While this meth…
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Towards Multi-Morphology Controllers with Diversity and Knowledge Distillation
Alican Mertan, Nick Cheney
Finding controllers that perform well across multiple morphologies is an important milestone for large-scale robotics, in line with recent advances via foundation models in other a…
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Investigating Premature Convergence in Co-optimization of Morphology and Control in Evolved Virtual Soft Robots
Alican Mertan, Nick Cheney
Evolving virtual creatures is a field with a rich history and recently it has been getting more attention, especially in the soft robotics domain. The compliance of soft materials…