Open issues in evolutionary robotics

F Silva, M Duarte, L Correia, SM Oliveira… - Evolutionary …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the long-term goals in evolutionary robotics is to be able to automatically synthesize
controllers for real autonomous robots based only on a task specification. While a number of …

Learning with weblogs: An empirical investigation

HS Du, C Wagner - Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The study investigates the impact of weblog use on individual learning in a university
environment. Weblogs are a relatively new knowledge sharing technology, which enables …

Neuromodulated multiobjective evolutionary neurocontrollers without speciation

I Showalter, HM Schwartz - Evolutionary Intelligence, 2021 - Springer
Neuromodulation is a biologically-inspired technique that can adapt the per-connection
learning rates of synaptic plasticity. Neuromodulation has been used to facilitate …

Multi-agent simulation collision avoidance of complex system: application to evacuation crowd behavior

M Chennoufi, F Bendella, M Bouzid - International Journal of …, 2018 - igi-global.com
In this work, we present a collision avoidance technique for a crowd robust navigation of
individuals in evacuation which is a good example of a complex system. The proposed …

A case study on the scalability of online evolution of robotic controllers

F Silva, L Correia, AL Christensen - Progress in Artificial Intelligence: 17th …, 2015 - Springer
Online evolution of controllers on real robots typically requires a prohibitively long evolution
time. One potential solution is to distribute the evolutionary algorithm across a group of …

Leveraging online racing and population cloning in evolutionary multirobot systems

F Silva, L Correia, AL Christensen - … 2016, Porto, Portugal, March 30--April …, 2016 - Springer
Online evolution of controllers on real robots typically requires a prohibitively long time to
synthesise effective solutions. In this paper, we introduce two novel approaches to …

Lamarckian inheritance in neuromodulated multiobjective evolutionary neurocontrollers

I Showalter, H Schwartz - 2019 27th Mediterranean Conference …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel evolutionary multiobjective neurocontroller with unsupervised
learning and Lamarckian inheritance for robot navigation. Multiobjective evolution of …

Multiobjective neuromodulated controllers for efficient autonomous vehicles with mass and drag in the pursuit-evasion game

I Showalter, H Schwartz - 2020 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous vehicles in the pursuit-evasion game, subject to the effects of mass and drag,
are controlled using an evolutionary multiobjective neuromodulated controller with …

Objective comparison and selection in mono-and multi-objective evolutionary neurocontrollers

I Showalter, H Schwartz - 2020 IEEE Symposium Series on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Often in multi-objective problems, several elemental objectives are combined into
compound objectives by using auxiliary equations to reduce these problems to just one or …

Online hyper-evolution of controllers in multirobot systems

F Silva, L Correia… - 2016 IEEE 10th …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we introduce online hyper-evolution (OHE) to accelerate and increase the
performance of online evolution of robotic controllers. Robots executing OHE use the …