Fitness functions in evolutionary robotics: A survey and analysis

AL Nelson, GJ Barlow, L Doitsidis - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper surveys fitness functions used in the field of evolutionary robotics (ER).
Evolutionary robotics is a field of research that applies artificial evolution to generate control …

Emergence of cooperation: State of the art

G Nitschke - Artificial Life, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This review presents a review of prevalent results within research pertaining to emergent
cooperation in biologically inspired artificial social systems. Results reviewed maintain …

Behavior trees for evolutionary robotics

KYW Scheper, S Tijmons, CC de Visser… - Artificial life, 2016 - direct.mit.edu
Evolutionary Robotics allows robots with limited sensors and processing to tackle complex
tasks by means of sensory-motor coordination. In this article we show the first application of …

Challenges and opportunities of evolutionary robotics

DA Sofge, MA Potter, MD Bugajska… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2007 - arxiv.org
Robotic hardware designs are becoming more complex as the variety and number of on-
board sensors increase and as greater computational power is provided in ever-smaller …

A homogeneous mobile robot team that is fault-tolerant

T Yasuda, K Ohkura, K Ueda - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper introduces a design methodology of a fault-tolerant autonomous multi-robot
system (MRS). An important fundamental topic for this type of system is the design of an on …

Autonomous role assignment in a homogeneous multi-robot system

T Yasuda, K Ohkura - Journal of Robotics and …, 2005 - u-toyama.elsevierpure.com
This paper describes an approach for controlling an autonomous homogeneous multi-robot
system. An extremely important topic for this type of system is the design of an on-line …

Using direct competition to select for competent controllers in evolutionary robotics

AL Nelson, E Grant - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2006 - Elsevier
Evolutionary robotics (ER) is a field of research that applies artificial evolution toward the
automatic design and synthesis of intelligent robot controllers. The preceding decade saw …

A reinforcement learning technique with an adaptive action generator for a multi-robot system

T Yasuda, K Ohkura - From Animals to Animats 10: 10th International …, 2008 - Springer
We have developed a new reinforcement learning (RL) technique called Bayesian-
discrimination-function-based reinforcement learning (BRL). BRL is unique, in that it does …

[图书][B] Complex Behavior in Evolutionary Robotics

L König - 2015 - books.google.com
Today, autonomous robots are used in a rather limited range of applications such as
exploration of inaccessible locations, cleaning floors, mowing lawns etc. However, ongoing …

[图书][B] Competitive relative performance and fitness selection for evolutionary robotics

AL Nelson - 2003 - search.proquest.com
Evolutionary Robotics (ER) is a field of research that applies evolutionary computing
methods to the automated design and synthesis of behavioral robotics controllers. In the …