Map-elites enables powerful step** stones and diversity for modular robotics

J Nordmoen, F Veenstra, KO Ellefsen… - Frontiers in Robotics and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In modular robotics modules can be reconfigured to change the morphology of the robot,
making it able to adapt to specific tasks. However, optimizing both the body and control of …

Environmental adaptation of robot morphology and control through real-world evolution

TF Nygaard, CP Martin, D Howard, J Torresen… - Evolutionary …, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
Robots operating in the real world will experience a range of different environments and
tasks. It is essential for the robot to have the ability to adapt to its surroundings to work …

A co-evolutionary algorithm with adaptive penalty function for constrained optimization

VV de Melo, AM Nascimento, G Iacca - Soft Computing, 2024 - Springer
Several constrained optimization problems have been adequately solved over the years
thanks to the advances in the area of metaheuristics. Nevertheless, the question as to which …

Quality and diversity in evolutionary modular robotics

J Nordmoen, F Veenstra, KO Ellefsen… - 2020 IEEE symposium …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In Evolutionary Robotics a population of solutions is evolved to optimize robots that solve a
given task. However, in traditional Evolutionary Algorithms, the population of solutions tends …

An improved Jaya optimization algorithm with ring topology and population size reduction

MGH Omran, G Iacca - Journal of Intelligent Systems, 2022 - degruyter.com
An improved variant of the Jaya optimization algorithm, called Jaya2, is proposed to
enhance the performance of the original Jaya sacrificing its algorithmic design. The …

Out of time: on the constrains that evolution in hardware faces when evolving modular robots

R Moreno, A Faina - International Conference on the Applications of …, 2022 - Springer
With the recent advances of modular robots and low-cost manipulators, the evolution of
robots, including morphologies and controllers, has become possible to perform in a …

Evolution of linkages for prototy** of linkage based robots

ES Norstein, KO Ellefsen, F Veenstra… - ar** robotic systems is a time consuming process. Computer aided design, however,
might speed up the process significantly. Quality-diversity evolutionary approaches optimise …