The evolution of signal communication for the e-puck robot

  • Authors:
  • Fernando Montes-Gonzalez;Fernando Aldana-Franco

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Artificial Intelligence, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico;Department of Artificial Intelligence, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico

  • Venue:
  • MICAI'11 Proceedings of the 10th Mexican international conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper we report our experiments with the e-puck robots for developing a communication system using evolutionary robotics. In order to do the latter we follow the evolutionary approach by using Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms. The robots develop a communication scheme for solving tasks like: locating food areas, avoiding obstacles, approaching light sources and locating sound-sources (other robots emitting sounds). Evorobot* and Webots simulators are used as tools for computing the evolutionary process and optimization of the weights of neural controllers. As a consequence, two different kinds of neural controllers emerge. On one hand, one controller is used for robot movement; on the other hand the second controller process sound signals.