Evolutionary robotics-an overview

Author

Gomi, Takashi ; Griffith, Ann

Author_Institution

Appl. AI Syst. Inc., Kanata, Ont., Canada

fYear

1996

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

49

Abstract

The field of evolutionary robotics (ER) emerged as an important recent addition to intelligent robotic research in the early 1990s. It currently deals mostly with the evolution of control software for mobile robots with the goal of developing competent robots that perform tasks well adapted to the requirements in a given operational environment and is also being extended to hardware evolution. This paper is partly based on results of a survey conducted of key evolutionary robotic research activities worldwide. Included in the survey are research activities in such places as Sussex University, Stanford University, Case Western Reserve University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL) and University of Trieste

Keywords

artificial intelligence; genetic algorithms; intelligent control; mobile robots; artificial life; evolutionary robotics; hardware evolution; intelligent robot; mobile robot control software; research activities; survey; Application software; Artificial intelligence; Computer architecture; Control systems; Evolutionary computation; Intelligent agent; Intelligent robots; Intelligent sensors; Robot sensing systems; Robotics and automation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Evolutionary Computation, 1996., Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nagoya

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2902-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEC.1996.542331

Filename

542331