Patent Document ID: 8447419
Application ID: 13462683

Base Claim:
1. A method of generating a control sequence for an autonomous actor, the method comprising: receiving one or more control sequences from a plurality of autonomous actors; identifying portions of control sequences from said received control sequences that will contribute to said control sequence for said autonomous actor, said identification based at least in part on a portion of said received control sequences, said identified portions of said received control sequences including a pseudo-gene having one or more values indicating which actors of the plurality of autonomous actors will contribute and a contribution from each of the indicated actors, said identified portions of said received control sequences comprising: a selection attribute indicating which control sequences will be selected; a mutation characteristic indicating an amount and a type of alteration applied to said one or more received control sequences; and a synthesizer indicating in what manner said selected control sequences will be combined to generate said control sequence for said autonomous actor; and generating a control sequence for said autonomous actor based on at least said identified control sequences.

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Claim 5:
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein said control sequence comprises a first portion controlling a physical attribute of said autonomous actor and a second portion controlling a behavioral attribute of said autonomous actor, the physical attribute associated with a physical interaction of the apparatus with the environment.