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Hardware Solutions for Evolutionary Robotics

Dario Floreano, Francesco Mondada
1998
Conference Papers

Abstract

Evolutionary robotics - as other adaptive methods, such as reinforcement learning and learning classifier systems - can take considerable time and resources which require a careful evaluation of the hardware tools and methodologies employed. We outline a set of hardware solutions and working methodologies that can be used for successfully implementing and extending the evolutionary approach to complex environments, robots, and real-world applications. The issues discussed include the integration of simulation and real robots, design issues of evolvable robots, hardware requirements for incremental evolution, and hardware and software tools for monitoring and analysis.

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Dario Floreano, Francesco Mondada
1998
Conference Papers

Abstract

Official source

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/f5f2999f-690a-4fc3-862f-0c380158a41b

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Robot

A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. A robot can be guided by an external control device, or the control may be embedded within. Robots may be constructed to evoke human form, but most robots are task-performing machines, designed with an emphasis on stark functionality, rather than expressive aesthetics.

Robotics

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Evolutionary robotics is an embodied approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI) in which robots are automatically designed using Darwinian principles of natural selection. The design of a robot, or a subsystem of a robot such as a neural controller, is optimized against a behavioral goal (e.g. run as fast as possible). Usually, designs are evaluated in simulations as fabricating thousands or millions of designs and testing them in the real world is prohibitively expensive in terms of time, money, and safety.

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