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Frontiers in Evolutionary Robotics

Edited by: Hitoshi Iba

ISBN 978-3-902613-19-6, Hard cover, 596 pages
Publisher: InTech
Publication date: April 2008
Subject: Robotics

This book presented techniques and experimental results which have been pursued for the purpose of evolutionary robotics. Evolutionary robotics is a new method for the automatic creation of autonomous robots. When executing tasks by autonomous robots, we can make the robot learn what to do so as to complete the task from interactions with its environment, but not manually pre-program for all situations. Many researchers have been studying the techniques for evolutionary robotics by using Evolutionary Computation (EC), such as Genetic Algorithms (GA) or Genetic Programming (GP). Their goal is to clarify the applicability of the evolutionary approach to the real-robot learning, especially, in view of the adaptive robot behavior as well as the robustness to noisy and dynamic environments. For this purpose, authors in this book explain a variety of real robots in different fields. For instance, in a multi-robot system, several robots simultaneously work to achieve a common goal via interaction; their behaviors can only emerge as a result of evolution and interaction. How to learn such behaviors is a central issue of Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI), which has recently attracted much attention. This book addresses the issue in the context of a multi-robot system, in which multiple robots are evolved using EC to solve a cooperative task. Since directly using EC to generate a program of complex behaviors is often very difficult, a number of extensions to basic EC are proposed in this book so as to solve these control problems of the robot.



Table of Contents

  1. A Comparative Evaluation of Methods for Evolving a Cooperative Team
    Takaya Arita and Yasuyuki Suzuki
    1328 views, 412 downloads
  2. Embodiment of Legged Robots Emerged in Evolutionary Design: Pseudo Passive Dynamic Walkers
    Kojiro Matsushita and Hiroshi Yokoi
    1332 views, 574 downloads
  3. Action Selection and Obstacle Avoidance Using Ultrasonic and Infrared Sensors
    Fernando Montes-Gonzalez, Daniel Flandes-Eusebio and Luis Pellegrin- Zazueta
    2656 views, 1346 downloads
  4. Multi-Legged Robot Control Using GA-Based Q-Learning Method With Neighboring Crossover
    Tadahiko Murata and Masatoshi Yamaguchi
    1298 views, 435 downloads
  5. Evolved Navigation Control for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
    Gregory J. Barlow and Choong K. Oh
    1315 views, 454 downloads
  6. Application of Artificial Evolution to Obstacle Detection and Mobile Robot Control
    Olivier Pauplin and Arnaud de La Fortelle
    1490 views, 536 downloads
  7. Hunting in an Environment Containing Obstacles: A Combinatory Study of Incremental Evolution and Co-Evolutionary Approaches
    Ioannis Mermigkis and Loukas Petrou
    1166 views, 384 downloads
  8. Evolving Behavior Coordination for Mobile Robots Using Distributed Finite-State Automata
    Pavel Petrovic
    1597 views, 552 downloads
  9. An Embedded Evolutionary Controller to Navigate a Population of Autonomous Robots
    Eduardo do Valle Simoes
    1176 views, 381 downloads
  10. Optimization of a 2 DOF Micro Parallel Robot Using Genetic Algorithms
    Sergiu-Dan Stan, Vistrian Maties and Radu Balan
    1710 views, 687 downloads
  11. Progressive Design through Staged Evolution
    Ricardo A. Tellez and Cecilio Angulo
    1229 views, 399 downloads
  12. Emotional Intervention on Stigmergy Based Foraging Behaviour of Immune Network Driven Mobile Robots
    Diana Tsankova
    1280 views, 369 downloads
  13. Evolutionary Distributed Control of a Biologically Inspired Modular Robot
    Sunil Pranit Lal and Koji Yamada
    1276 views, 468 downloads
  14. Evolutionary Computation of Multi-Robot/Agent Systems
    Philippe Lucidarme
    1353 views, 416 downloads
  15. Evolutionary Parametric Identification of Dynamic Systems
    Dimitris Koulocheris and Vasilis Dertimanis
    1531 views, 604 downloads
  16. A Quantitative Analysis of Memory Usage for Agent Tasks
    DaeEun Kim
    1224 views, 395 downloads
  17. An Adaptive Penalty Method for Genetic Algorithms in Constrained Optimization Problems
    Helio J. C. Barbosa and Afonso C. C. Lemonge
    1476 views, 589 downloads
  18. Evolutionary-Based Control Approaches for Multirobot Systems
    Jekanthan Thangavelautham, Timothy D. Barfoot and Gabriele M.T. D'Eleuterio
    1478 views, 383 downloads
  19. Learning by Experience and by Imitation in Multi-Robot Systems
    Dennis Barrios-Aranibar, Luiz M. G. Goncalves and Pablo Javier Alsina
    1237 views, 438 downloads
  20. Cellular Non-Linear Networks as a New Paradigm for Evolutionary Robotics
    Eleonora Bilotta and Pietro Pantano
    1290 views, 454 downloads
  21. Optimal Design of Mechanisms for Robot Hands
    J.A. Cabrera, F. Nadal and A. Simon
    1414 views, 582 downloads
  22. Evolving Humanoids: Using Artificial Evolution as an Aid in the Design of Humanoid Robots
    Malachy Eaton
    1624 views, 714 downloads
  23. Real-Time Evolutionary Algorithms for Constrained Predictive Control
    Mario Luca Fravolini, Antonio Ficola and Michele La Cava
    1372 views, 446 downloads
  24. Applying Real-Time Survivability Considerations in Evolutionary Behavior Learning by a Mobile Robot
    Wolfgang Freund, Tomas Arredondo V. and Cesar Munoz
    1118 views, 433 downloads
  25. An Evolutionary MAP Filter for Mobile Robot Global Localization
    L. Moreno, S. Garrido, M. L. Munoz and D. Blanco
    1419 views, 450 downloads
  26. Learning to Walk with Model Assisted Evolution Strategies
    Matthias Hebbel and Walter Nistico
    1341 views, 425 downloads
  27. Evolutionary Morphology for Polycube Robots
    Takahiro Tohge and Hitoshi Iba
    1172 views, 442 downloads
  28. Mechanism of Emergent Symmetry Properties on Evolutionary Robotic System
    Naohide Yasuda, Takuma Kawakami, Hiroaki Iwano, Katsuya Kanai, Koki Kikuchi and Xueshan Gao
    1256 views, 390 downloads
  29. Evolutionary Motion Design for Humanoid Robots
    Toshihiko Yanase and Hitoshi Iba
    1460 views, 496 downloads