This article provides an overview of evolutionary robotics techniques applied to online
distributed evolution for robot collectives, namely, embodied evolution. It provides a …

Roborobo! is a multi-platform, highly portable, robot simulator for large-scale collective
robotics experiments. Roborobo! is coded in C++, and follows the KISS guideline (" Keep it …

In this paper, we study how a swarm of robots adapts over time to solve a collaborative task
using a distributed Embodied Evolutionary approach, where each robot runs an evolutionary …

One of the grand challenges in self-configurable robotics is to enable robots to change their
configuration, autonomously, and in parallel, depending on changes in the environment. In …

Swarming and modular robotic locomotion are two disconnected behaviours that a group of
small homogeneous robots can be used to achieve. The use of these two behaviours is a …

A swarm of robots may face challenges in unknown environments where self-assembly is a
necessity eg crossing difficult areas. When exploring such environments, the self-assembly …

This thesis describes some of the work done in the context of the Symbrion project1. This
project targets the realization of complex tasks which require the cooperation of multiple …

We propose and evaluate a novel approach to the online synthesis of neural controllers for
groups and swarms of autonomous robots. We combine online evolution of weights and …

In this paper, we present the results of the tests we have performed with different encoding
strategies for evolving controllers for a snake-like robot. This study is aimed at finding the …

The objective of the work presented in this paper is to investigate the optimal learning
strategy for snake-like modular robots using a (1+ 1) Evolutionary Algorithm. We take into …