Learning directed locomotion in modular robots with evolvable morphologies

G Lan, M De Carlo, F van Diggelen, JM Tomczak… - Applied Soft …, 2021 - Elsevier
The vision behind this paper looks ahead to evolutionary robot systems where morphologies
and controllers are evolved together and 'newborn'robots undergo a learning process to …

An empirical analysis of cloud based robotics: challenges and applications

M Saini, K Sharma, R Doriya - International Journal of Information …, 2022 - Springer
Applications of robots play an important role in autonomous systems, and with the dawning
of cloud computing technologies, it can be upgraded to another level. This paper presents …

Lamarckian evolution of simulated modular robots

M Jelisavcic, K Glette, E Haasdijk… - Frontiers in Robotics and …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
We study evolutionary robot systems where not only the robot brains but also the robot
bodies are evolvable. Such systems need to include a learning period right after 'birth'to …

Revolve: a versatile simulator for online robot evolution

E Hupkes, M Jelisavcic, AE Eiben - … 2018, Parma, Italy, April 4-6, 2018 …, 2018 - Springer
Developing robotic systems that can evolve in real-time and real-space is a long term
objective with technological as well as algorithmic milestones on the road. Technological …

Enhancing robot evolution through Lamarckian principles

J Luo, K Miras, J Tomczak, AE Eiben - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Evolutionary robot systems offer two principal advantages: an advanced way of developing
robots through evolutionary optimization and a special research platform to conduct what-if …

A survey on evolutionary-aided design in robotics

SGR Prabhu, RC Seals, PJ Kyberd, JC Wetherall - Robotica, 2018 - cambridge.org
The evolutionary-aided design process is a method to find solutions to design and
optimisation problems. Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are applied to search for optimal …

Towards Physically Talented Aerial Robots with Tactically Smart Swarm Behavior thereof: An Efficient Co-design Approach

P KrisshnaKumar, S Paul, H Manjunatha… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The collective performance or capacity of collaborative autonomous systems such as a
swarm of robots is jointly influenced by the morphology and the behavior of individual …

Evosphere: The world of robot evolution

AE Eiben - Theory and Practice of Natural Computing: Fourth …, 2015 - Springer
In this paper I describe EvoSphere, a tangible realization of the general Evolution of Things
concept. EvoSphere can be used as a research platform to study the evolution of intelligent …

Self-organizing intelligent matter: A blueprint for an ai generating algorithm

K Gregor, F Besse - arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.07627, 2021 - arxiv.org
We propose an artificial life framework aimed at facilitating the emergence of intelligent
organisms. In this framework there is no explicit notion of an agent: instead there is an …

Lamarck's Revenge: Inheritance of Learned Traits Can Make Robot Evolution Better

J Luo, K Miras, J Tomczak, AE Eiben - arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.13099, 2023 - arxiv.org
Evolutionary robot systems offer two principal advantages: an advanced way of developing
robots through evolutionary optimization and a special research platform to conduct what-if …