Title :
Evolved neuromorphic flight control for a flapping-wing mechanical insect model
Author :
Boddhu, Sanjay K. ; Gallagher, John C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Wright State Univ., Dayton, OH
Abstract :
This paper examines the feasibility of evolving analog neuromorphic devices to control flight in a realistic flapping-wing mechanical insect model. It will summarize relevant prior results in controlling a legged robot and explain why these results are relevant to the problem of winged flight. Following, it will present the outcomes of experiments to evolve flight controllers and discuss the implications of those results and possible future work.
Keywords :
aerospace control; aerospace robotics; mobile robots; analog neuromorphic devices; evolved neuromorphic flight control; flapping-wing mechanical insect model; legged robot control; winged flight; Aerospace control; Circuits; Control systems; Insects; Legged locomotion; Neural network hardware; Neuromorphics; Neurons; Robot control; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Evolutionary Computation, 2008. CEC 2008. (IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence). IEEE Congress on
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1822-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1823-7
DOI :
10.1109/CEC.2008.4631025