Introduction to Evolutionary Computing
Introduction to Evolutionary Computing
Evolving Self-Organizing Behaviors for a Swarm-Bot
Autonomous Robots
Origins of communication in evolving robots
SAB'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on From Animals to Animats: simulation of Adaptive Behavior
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Evolutionary robotics uses evolutionary computation to optimize physically embodied agents. We present here a framework for performing off-line evolution of a pluripotent robot controller that manages to form multicellular robotic organisms from a swarm of autonomously moving small robot modules. We describe our evolutionary framework, show first results and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of our off-line evolution approach. In detail, we explain the single parts of the framework and a novel homeostatic hormone-based controller, which is shaped by artificial evolution to control both, the non-aggregated single robotic modules and the joined high-level robotic organisms. As a first step we present results of this evolutionary shaped controller showing the potential for different motion behaviours.