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Evolving Neural Networks for the Control of a Lenticular Blimp

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Applications of Evolutionary Computing (EvoWorkshops 2003)

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We used evolution to shape a neural controller for keeping a blimp at a given altitude, and as horizontal as possible, despite disturbing winds. The blimp has a lenticular shape whose aerodynamic properties make it quite di.erent from a classical cigar-shaped airship. Evolution has exploited these features to generate a neural network that proved to be more efficient than a hand-designed PID-based controller that independently controlled the blimp’s three degrees of freedom.

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  1. AnimatLab, LIP6, France

    Stéphane Doncieux & Jean-Arcady Meyer

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  1. Stéphane Doncieux
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Dept. of Computer Engineering, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 181/a, 43100, Parma, Italy

    Stefano Cagnoni

  2. Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NF, UK

    Colin G. Johnson

  3. Dept. of Information and Communications Technologies Faculty of Computer Science, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, CP 15071, Spain

    Juan J. Romero Cardalda

  4. Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Free University of Amsterdam, de Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Elena Marchiori

  5. Schol of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, PO Box 225, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AY, UK

    David W. Corne

  6. AnimatLab, 8 rue du capitaine Scott, 75015, Paris, France

    Jean-Arcady Meyer  & Agnès Guillot  & 

  7. SAP AG, Neurottstrasse 16, 69190, Walldorf, Germany

    Jens Gottlieb

  8. Parallel Computing and Complex Systems Group, University of Leipzig, Augustusplatz 10/11, 04109, Leipzig, Germany

    Martin Middendorf

  9. Algorithms and Data Structures Group Institute of Computer Graphics, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstrasse 9-11/186, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Günther R. Raidl

  10. School of Computing, Napier University, 219 Colinton Road, Edinburgh, EH14 1DJ, UK

    Emma Hart

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Doncieux, S., Meyer, JA. (2003). Evolving Neural Networks for the Control of a Lenticular Blimp. In: Cagnoni, S., et al. Applications of Evolutionary Computing. EvoWorkshops 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2611. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36605-9_57

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