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Competitive co-evolution of sensory-motor systems
University of Skövde, Department of Computer Science.
2002 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year))Student thesis
Abstract [en]

A recent trend in evolutionary robotics and artificial life research is to maximize self-organization in the design of robotic systems, in particular using artificial evolutionary techniques, in order to reduce the human designer bias. This dissertation presents experiments in competitive co-evolutionary robotics that integrate and extend previous work on competitive co-evolution of neural robot controllers in a predator-prey scenario with work on the ‘co-evolution’ of robot morphology and control systems. The focus here is on a systematic investigation of tradeoffs and interdependencies between morphological parameters and behavioral strategies through a series of predator-prey experiments in which increasingly many aspects are subject to self-organization through competitive co-evolution. The results show that there is a strong interdependency between morphological parameters and behavioral strategies evolved, and that the competitive co-evolutionary process was able to find a balance between and within these two aspects. It is therefore concluded that competitive co-evolution has great potential as a method for the automatic design of robotic systems.

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Skövde: Institutionen för datavetenskap , 2002. , p. 116
Keywords [en]
Evolutionary robotics, competitive co-evolution, sensory-motor system, robot morphology, brain and body ‘co-evolution’, parameter optimization, predator and prey, vision.
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Information Systems
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URN: urn:nbn:se:his:diva-733OAI: oai:DiVA.org:his-733DiVA, id: diva2:3136
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Social and Behavioural Science, Law
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