期刊
ROBOTICS
卷 9, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/robotics9040106
关键词
evolutionary robotics; autonomous robot evolution; autonomous robot fabrication; robot manufacturability
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资金
- EPSRC ARE project [EP/R03561X, EP/R035733, EP/R035679]
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- EPSRC [EP/R03561X/1, EP/R035679/1, EP/R035733/1] Funding Source: UKRI
A long-term vision of evolutionary robotics is a technology enabling the evolution of entire autonomous robotic ecosystems that live and work for long periods in challenging and dynamic environments without the need for direct human oversight. Evolutionary robotics has been widely used due to its capability of creating unique robot designs in simulation. Recent work has shown that it is possible to autonomously construct evolved designs in the physical domain; however, this brings new challenges: the autonomous manufacture and assembly process introduces new constraints that are not apparent in simulation. To tackle this, we introduce a new method for producing a repertoire of diverse but manufacturable robots. This repertoire is used to seed an evolutionary loop that subsequently evolves robot designs and controllers capable of solving a maze-navigation task. We show that compared to random initialisation, seeding with a diverse and manufacturable population speeds up convergence and on some tasks, increases performance, while maintaining manufacturability. Dataset: The source code used for this study is available here: https://bitbucket.org/autonomousroboticsevolution/mdpi2020/
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