This article describes the implementation of a robot with evolutionary control scheme, and experiments in to examine evolutionary control with a population of five physical autonomous mobile robots. The control for the robots is totally embedded and performs collision-free behaviour. Both morphological features and controller circuit are evolved. The robots constantly adapt to changes of surroundings by modifying their features and the weights of the RAM neural controller. The paper describes the Evolutionary System and the results of experiments. These show that in relatively complex navigation tasks the proposed system evolves very quickly to develop a robust control system.
Simoes et al. evolved both morphological features and the controllers in the same genome for collision-free behavior REF .
An evolutionary controller for autonomous multi-robot systems
IEEE SMC'99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Cat. No.99CH37028)
IEEE SMC'99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Cat. No.99CH37028)
Computer Science