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Generative Evolutionary Design of Voxel-Based Soft Robots with Provable Optimality
Junru Song, Huan Xiao, Yang Yang +8
Voxel-based soft robots (VSRs) present a promising avenue for developing artificial organisms with lifelike intelligence. However, the vast design spaces and expensive evaluations…
RoboLDA: A Probabilistic Generative Model for Uncovering Embodied Hierarchical Structures in Voxel-based Soft Robots
Junru Song, Yang Yang, Jingdan Shi +6
Recent advances in robotics highlight hierarchical configurations of robot morphology, where multiple levels of functional substructures synergize to facilitate intelligent behavio…
Shaping the Evolutionary Dynamics of Robot Morphology via Adaptive Control Learning
Junru Song, Yang Yang, Yaqing Xu +5
Robot co-design via bi-level optimization couples within-lifetime controller learning for fitness evaluation with cross-generational morphological evolution. Prior work has establi…
HeteroMorpheus: Universal Control Based on Morphological Heterogeneity Modeling
YiFan Hao, Yang Yang, Junru Song +4
In the field of robotic control, designing individual controllers for each robot leads to high computational costs. Universal control policies, applicable across diverse robot morp…