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Research Paper #802

Title:A Hybrid Gp/Ga Approach for Co-Evolving Controllers and Robot Bodies to Achieve Fitness-Specified Tasks
Authors:Lee,W; Hallam,JC; Lund,HH
Date:Apr 1996
Presented:To appear in the Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Nagoya, Japan
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Abstract:Evolutionary approaches have been advocated to automate robot design. Some research work has shown the success of evolving controllers for the robots by genetic approaches. As we can observe, however, not only the controller but also the robot body itself can affect the behavior of the robot in a robot system. In this paper, we develop a hybrid GP/GA approach to evolve both controllers and robot bodies to achieve behavior-specified tasks. in order to assess the performance of the developed approach, it is used to evolve a simulated agent, with its own controller and body, to do obstacle avoidance in the simulated environment. Experimental results show the promise of this work. in addition, the importance of co-evolving controllers and robot bodies is analyzed and discussed in this paper.
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