GA-based learning in behaviour based robotics

This paper presents a Genetic Algorithm (GA) approach to evolving robot behaviours. We use fuzzy logic controllers (FLCs) to design robot behaviours. The antecedents of the FLCs are pre-designed, while their consequences are learned using a GA. The Sony quadruped robots are used to evaluate proposed approaches in the robotic football domain. Two behaviours, ball-chasing and position-reaching, are studied and implemented. An embodied evolution scheme is adopted, by which the robot autonomously evolves its behaviours based on a layered control architecture. The results show that the robot behaviours can be automatically acquired through the GAbased learning of FLCs.