Title:	SWIMMING ANIMATS WITH MUSCULOSKELTAL STRUCTURE
Author(s):	Masashi Furukawa, Michiko Watanabe, Akihiro Fukumoto, Ikuo Suzuki, Masahito Yamamoto
ISBN:	978-972-8939-74-8
Editors:	Yingcai Xiao
Year:	2012
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Artificial fish, Animat, A-Life, Neuro-evolution, Artificial Neural Network, and Physics Modeling.
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	37
Last Page:	46
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	Animats are artificial creature studied in Alife. Musculo-skeltal structure is a skeleton control model usually used for humanoids. We apply the musculo-skeltal structure to simple swimming animats. The purpose of this study is to acquire proper locomotion of animats in a virtual water environment. The locomotion control is acquired by use of neuro-evolution. 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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