One of the main challenges when developing mobile robots is path planning. Efficient and robust algorithms are needed to produce plans for the movements of the robot. Many classical path planning algorithms depend on geometrically simple environments to achieve good performance, otherwise the paths produced tend to be far from ideal especially when the paths are to be optimized for multiple obj...

Evolutionary computation (EC) techniques have been successfully applied to compute near-optimal paths for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Premature convergence prevents evolutionary-based algorithms from reaching global optimal solutions. This often leads to unsatisfactory routes that are suboptimal to optimal path planning problems. To overcome this problem, this paper presents a framework of...

A neural implementation of a support vector machine is described and applied to one-shot trainable pattern recognition. The model is compared to anatomical and dynamical properties of the olfactory system. In the olfactory model, inputs from the olfactory bulb are captured and stabilized in the anterior olfactory cortex and the kernel is computed in the posterior piriform cortex. The anterior p...

"-TEX is the rst concrete result of an international research & development project, the NTS Project, which was established under the gis of DANTE during 1992. The aims of the project are to perpetuate and develop the spirit and philosophy of TEX, whilst respecting Knuth's wish that TEX itself should remain frozen. The group were very concerned that unless there existed some evolutionary exibil...

The generation of tool paths for the milling of dies and moulds requires immense knowledge about the process behavior. This high dimensional geometrical optimizing problem requires technical knowledge and user experience. In this paper, first approaches using evolutionary algorithms for automating tool path generation and optimizing given tool paths are shown. The proposed method combines evolu...

Creationism is a religiously motivated worldview in denial of biological evolution that has been very resistant to change. We performed a textual analysis by examining creationist and pro-evolutionary texts for aspects of "experiential thinking", a cognitive process different from scientific thought. We observed characteristics of experiential thinking as follows: testimonials (present in 100% ...

Enzymes and biochemical mechanisms essential to survival are under extreme selective pressure and are highly conserved through evolutionary time. We applied this evolutionary concept to barnacle cement polymerization, a process critical to barnacle fitness that involves aggregation and cross-linking of proteins. The biochemical mechanisms of cement polymerization remain largely unknown. We hypo...

In this paper we propose a new algorithm to solve the problem of robotic path planning in static environment where the source and destination are given. A grid-based map has been used to represent the robotic world. The basic algorithm is built on an evolutionary approach, where the path evolves along with generations with each generation adding to the maximum possible complexity of the path. A...