The transferability approach: Crossing the reality gap in evolutionary robotics

S Koos, JB Mouret, S Doncieux - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The reality gap, which often makes controllers evolved in simulation inefficient once
transferred onto the physical robot, remains a critical issue in evolutionary robotics (ER). We …

On the convergence analysis, stability, and implementation of meshless local radial point interpolation on a class of three‐dimensional wave equations

E Shivanian - International Journal for Numerical Methods in …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, the meshless local radial point interpolation method is applied to analyze three
space dimensional wave equations of the form subject to given initial and Dirichlet boundary …

Surrogate-assisted quasi-Newton enhanced global optimization of antennas based on a heuristic hypersphere sampling

Z Zhang, HC Chen, QS Cheng - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This communication presents a novel surrogate-assisted quasi-Newton enhanced global
optimization (SA-QNEGO) algorithm. In this proposed method, the heuristic hypersphere …

[HTML][HTML] Surrogate-based optimisation using adaptively scaled radial basis functions

M Urquhart, E Ljungskog, S Sebben - Applied Soft Computing, 2020 - Elsevier
Aerodynamic shape optimisation is widely used in several applications, such as road
vehicles, aircraft and trains. This paper investigates the performance of two surrogate-based …

Multifidelity surrogate modeling based on radial basis functions

C Durantin, J Rouxel, JA Désidéri, A Glière - Structural and …, 2017 - Springer
Multiple models of a physical phenomenon are sometimes available with different levels of
approximation. The high fidelity model is more computationally demanding than the coarse …

A new spectral meshless radial point interpolation (SMRPI) method: a well-behaved alternative to the meshless weak forms

E Shivanian - Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, 2015 - Elsevier
In this article, a new spectral meshless radial point interpolation (SMRPI) technique is
proposed and, as a test problem, applied to the two-dimensional diffusion equation with an …

Comparison of adaptive sampling methods for generation of surrogate aerodynamic models

TJ Mackman, CB Allen, M Ghoreyshi, KJ Badcock - AIAA journal, 2013 - arc.aiaa.org
A surrogate modeling strategy, using effective interpolation and sampling methods,
facilitates a reduction in the number of computational fluid dynamics simulations required to …

Spectral meshless radial point interpolation (SMRPI) method to two‐dimensional fractional telegraph equation

E Shivanian - Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
H. Ammari In this article, an innovative technique so‐called spectral meshless radial point
interpolation (SMRPI) method is proposed and, as a test problem, is applied to a classical …

Optical solitons based on N-coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations and rational RBF partition of unity approach

M Abbaszadeh, MA Zaky, AS Hendy… - Engineering Analysis with …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recently, several numerical methods based on the radial basis functions have been applied
to solving differential equations. Many researchers have employed the radial basis functions …

[HTML][HTML] Fast and stable rational RBF-based partition of unity interpolation

S De Marchi, A Martínez, E Perracchione - Journal of Computational and …, 2019 - Elsevier
We perform a local computation via the Partition of Unity (PU) method of rational Radial
Basis Function (RBF) interpolants. We investigate the well-posedness of the problem and …