Evolving Vision Controllers with a Two-Phase Genetic Programming System Using Imitation

  • Authors:
  • Renaud Barate;Antoine Manzanera

  • Affiliations:
  • ENSTA - UEI, Paris, France 75739;ENSTA - UEI, Paris, France 75739

  • Venue:
  • SAB '08 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior: From Animals to Animats
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We present a system that automatically selects and parameterizes a vision based obstacle avoidance method adapted to a given visual context. This system uses genetic programming and a robotic simulation to evaluate the candidate algorithms. As the number of evaluations is restricted, we introduce a novel method using imitation to guide the evolution toward promising solutions. We show that for this problem, our two-phase evolution process performs better than other techniques.