Innately adaptive robotics through embodied evolution

Innately adaptive robotics through embodied evolution

Autonomous adaptation in robots has become recognised as crucial for devices deployed in remote or inhospitable environments. The aim of this work is to investigate autonomous robot adaptation, focussing on damage recovery and adaptation to unknown environments. An embodied evolutionary algorithm is introduced and its capabilities demonstrated with experimental results. This algorithm is shown ...

Embodied Evolution in Collective Robotics: A Review

This paper provides an overview of evolutionary robotics techniques applied to on-line distributed evolution for robot collectives – namely, embodied evolution. It provides a definition of embodied evolution as well as a thorough description of the underlying concepts and mechanisms. The paper also presents a comprehensive summary of research published in the field since its inception (1999-201...

Embodied Evolution: A Response to Challenges in Evolutionary Robotics

We introduce Embodied Evolution (EE), a new methodology for conducting evolutionary robotics (ER). Embodied evolution uses a population of physical robots that evolve by reproducing with one another in the task environment. EE addresses several issues identiied by researchers in the evolutionary robotics community as problematic for the development of ER. We review results from our rst experime...

Roomba Pac-Man: Teaching Autonomous Robotics through Embodied Gaming

We present an approach to teaching autonomous robotics to upper-level undergraduates through the medium of embodied games. As part of a developing course at Brown University, we have created the Roomba Pac-Man task to introduce students to different approaches to autonomous robot control in the context of a specific task. Roomba Pac-Man has been developed using commodity hardware from which stu...

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