An evolutionary architecture for a humanoid robot

This document describes the hardware and software architecture behind the ELVIS robot. ELVIS is a bipedal robot with human-like geometry and motion capabilities | a humanoid. ELVIS is also the rst robot in a series of planned humanoid experiments, all of which will be primarily controlled by evolutionary adaptive methods. The nal goal of our research project is to build a human-sized robot based on a plastic human skeleton to ensure geometric authenticity.