Braitenberg simulations as vehicles of evolution

  • Authors:
  • Correy Allen Kowall

  • Affiliations:
  • Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan

  • Venue:
  • GECCO '05 Proceedings of the 7th annual workshop on Genetic and evolutionary computation
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe a series of simulations that serve as a verification of the abstract similarity between vehicular and animal navigation. Valentino Braitenberg used this similarity to illustrate that vehicles controlled by very simple biologically inspired circuits, manifest a wonderful diversity of complex animal behaviors. By constructing a series of experiments that are designed around the possibility of interchanging phenomena that affect vehicles or animals, we hope to show that this analogical similarity is a useful tool.