A Robot That Walks; Emergent Behaviors from a Carefully Evolved Network

  • Authors:
  • Rodney A. Brooks

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • A Robot That Walks; Emergent Behaviors from a Carefully Evolved Network
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

This paper suggests a possible mechanism for robot evolution by describing a carefully designed series of networks, each one being a strict augmentation of the previous one, which controls a six- legged walking machine capable of walking over rough terrain and following a person passively sensed in the infrared spectrum. As the completely decentralized networks are augmented, the robot''s performance and behavior repertoire demonstrably improve.