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Two-Step Incremental Evolution of a Prosthetic Hand Controller Based on Digital Logic Gates

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Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES 2001)

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Evolvable Hardware (EHW) has been proposed as a new method for designing systems for real-world applications. In this paper it is applied for evolving a prosthetic hand controller. It is shown that better generalization performance than neural networks can be obtained. The proposed architecture is based on digital logic gates and its configuration is determined by two separate steps of evolution.

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  1. Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1080, Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway

    Jim Torresen

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  1. University of Aizu, Tsuruga, Ikki-machi, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Fukushima, 965-8580, Japan

    Yong Liu

  2. Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University, 4-17-1 Wakasato, Nagano, 380-8553, Japan

    Kiyoshi Tanaka

  3. Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Science and Technology, Adv. Semiconductor Research Center, AIST Tsukuba Central 2, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8568, Japan

    Masaya Iwata  & Tetsuya Higuchi  & 

  4. University of Tsukuba, Institute of Information Sciences and Electronics, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8573, Japan

    Moritoshi Yasunaga

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Torresen, J. (2001). Two-Step Incremental Evolution of a Prosthetic Hand Controller Based on Digital Logic Gates. In: Liu, Y., Tanaka, K., Iwata, M., Higuchi, T., Yasunaga, M. (eds) Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware. ICES 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2210. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45443-8_1

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