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Swimming Animats with Musculoskeltal Structure

Masashi Furukawa. Hokkaido University.Nishi 9 Kita 14 Kita-ku Sapporo *
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* Michiko Watanabe. Kitami Institute of Technology.165 Kouen-cho Kitami, Japan. Akihiro Fukumoto. Hokkaido University.Nishi 9 Kita 14 Kita-ku Sapporo, Japan. Ikuo Suzuki. Kitami Institute of Technology.165 Kouen-cho Kitami, Japan. Masahito Yamamoto. Hokkaido University.Nishi 9 Kita 14 Kita-ku Sapporo, Japan. (Portugal)
* Michiko Watanabe. Kitami Institute of Technology.165 Kouen-cho Kitami, Japan. Akihiro Fukumoto. Hokkaido University.Nishi 9 Kita 14 Kita-ku Sapporo, Japan. Ikuo Suzuki. Kitami Institute of Technology.165 Kouen-cho Kitami, Japan. Masahito Yamamoto. Hokkaido University.Nishi 9 Kita 14 Kita-ku Sapporo, Japan. (Portugal)

Abstract

Animats are artificial creature studied in Alife. Musculo-skeltal structure is a skeleton control model usually used for humanoids. We appl y the musculo-skeltal structure to simple swimming animats. The purpose of this study is to acquire proper locomoti on of animats in a virtual water environment. The locomotion control is acquired by use of neuro-e volution. The evolved locomotion, swimming, is analyzed by comparing them with those of rigid- bodies and joints model. Results show that the musculo-skeltal structure becomes possible to swim by large oscillation.

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Artificial fish Animat A-Life Neuro-evolution Artificial Neural Network and Physics Modeling.
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Sapporo, et al. (2012). Swimming Animats with Musculoskeltal Structure. IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems, 7(2). https://doi.org/10.33965/ijcsis_2012_v7i2_12
Sapporo, et al. "Swimming Animats with Musculoskeltal Structure." IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems, vol. 7, no. 2, 2012. https://doi.org/10.33965/ijcsis_2012_v7i2_12
Sapporo, et al. "Swimming Animats with Musculoskeltal Structure." IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems 7, no. 2 (2012). https://doi.org/10.33965/ijcsis_2012_v7i2_12