Is situated evolution an alternative for classical evolution?
CEC'09 Proceedings of the Eleventh conference on Congress on Evolutionary Computation
CEC'09 Proceedings of the Eleventh conference on Congress on Evolutionary Computation
On-line, on-board evolution of robot controllers
EA'09 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Artificial evolution
Racing to improve on-line, on-board evolutionary robotics
Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
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Embodied Evolution is a research area in Evolutionary Robotics in which the evolutionary algorithm is entirely decentralized among a population of robots. Evaluation, selection and reproduction are carried out by and between the robots, without any need for human intervention. This paper describes a new Evolutionary Control System (ECS) able to control a population of mobile robots. The ECS is based on a Genetic Programming algorithm and has two main modules. The first one, called EMSS (Execution, Management and Supervision System), is the system responsible for managing all the evolutionary process in each robot. The second module, called DGP (Distributed Genetic Programming), is an extension of classical Genetic Programming algorithm to support the robot control system evolution. To test the DGP's performance a simulation experiment, with the collision-free navigation task, was accomplished and its results are presented.