Simulations of simulations in evolutionary robotics

  • Authors:
  • Edgar Bermudez Contreras;Anil K. Seth

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK;Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

  • Venue:
  • ECAL'07 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Advances in artificial life
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In recent years simulation tools for agent-environment interactions have included increasingly complex and physically realistic conditions. These simulations pose challenges for researchers interested in evolutionary robotics because the computational expense of running multiple evaluations can be very high. Here, we address this issue by applying evolutionary techniques to a simplified simulation of a simulation itself. We show this approach to be successful when transferring controllers evolved for example visual tasks from a simplified simulation to a comparatively rich visual simulation.