macro_dice.md

Digital Material Modeling and Simulation

Case study of the design and optimization of Macro-DICE.

Hardware Implementation:

• VoxRob
• rover
• DM3

Structure Simulation Integration

Using the MetaVoxel simulation tool:

Robotics Design

Assembly

• Option for different kinds of assembly (swarm assembly)
  

Control

Optimization

• Two level optimization
  • Shape (body) => Hierarchal Local Online Shape Optimization
  • Control (mind) => AI that grows
  • Simultaneous optimization of shape and control