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Book: Cognitive Robotics
Series: Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 May 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13780.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262369329
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 30 January 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2889.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262256735
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 30 January 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2889.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262256735
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 30 January 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2889.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262256735
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 30 January 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2889.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262256735
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 30 January 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2889.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262256735
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 30 January 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2889.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262256735
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 30 January 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2889.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262256735
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 30 January 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2889.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262256735
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 30 January 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2889.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262256735
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 30 January 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2889.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262256735
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 30 January 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2889.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262256735
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 30 January 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2889.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262256735
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 30 January 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2889.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262256735
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 30 January 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2889.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262256735
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 30 January 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2889.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262256735
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 30 January 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2889.003.0016
EISBN: 9780262256735
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 30 January 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2889.003.0017
EISBN: 9780262256735
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 30 January 2004
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2889.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262256735
Evolutionary robotics is a new technique for the automatic creation of autonomous robots. Inspired by the Darwinian principle of selective reproduction of the fittest, it views robots as autonomous artificial organisms that develop their own skills in close interaction with the environment and without human intervention. Drawing heavily on biology and ethology, it uses the tools of neural networks, genetic algorithms, dynamic systems, and biomorphic engineering. The resulting robots share with simple biological systems the characteristics of robustness, simplicity, small size, flexibility, and modularity.In evolutionary robotics, an initial population of artificial chromosomes, each encoding the control system of a robot, is randomly created and put into the environment. Each robot is then free to act (move, look around, manipulate) according to its genetically specified controller while its performance on various tasks is automatically evaluated. The fittest robots then "reproduce" by swapping parts of their genetic material with small random mutations. The process is repeated until the "birth" of a robot that satisfies the performance criteria. This book describes the basic concepts and methodologies of evolutionary robotics and the results achieved so far. An important feature is the clear presentation of a set of empirical experiments of increasing complexity. Software with a graphic interface, freely available on a Web page, will allow the reader to replicate and vary (in simulation and on real robots) most of the experiments.