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successful results. Obviously, this is not the end of the research path, but rather
its beginning. Now we have to extend this initial structure in order to consider
more complex tasks and control strategies as well as start working on ways to
perform the morphological and control adaptation on-line. This will involve not
only deciding on the final morphology and control structure, but also on the way
to get to it from the current one.
Acknowledgments. This work was partially funded by the Xunta de Galicia
and European Regional Development Funds through projects 09DPI012166PR
and 10DPI005CT.
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