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Frontiers in
Evolutionary
Robotics
Hitoshi Iba
Frontiers in Evolutionary Robotics
Edited by Hitoshi Iba
ISBN 978-3-902613-19-6, 596 pages,  Publishing date: April 2008
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This book presented techniques and experimental results which have been pursued for the purpose of evolutionary robotics. Evolutionary robotics is a new method for the automatic creation of autonomous robots. When executing tasks by autonomous robots, we can make the robot learn what to do so as to complete the task from interactions with its environment, but not manually pre-program for all situations. Many researchers have been studying the techniques for evolutionary robotics by using Evolutionary Computation (EC), such as Genetic Algorithms (GA) or Genetic Programming (GP). Their goal is to clarify the applicability of the evolutionary approach to the real-robot learning, especially, in view of the adaptive robot behavior as well as the robustness to noisy and dynamic environments. For this purpose, authors in this book explain a variety of real robots in different fields. For instance, in a multi-robot system, several robots simultaneously work to achieve a common goal via interaction; their behaviors can only emerge as a result of evolution and interaction. How to learn such behaviors is a central issue of Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI), which has recently attracted much attention. This book addresses the issue in the context of a multi-robot system, in which multiple robots are evolved using EC to solve a cooperative task. Since directly using EC to generate a program of complex behaviors is often very difficult, a number of extensions to basic EC are proposed in this book so as to solve these control problems of the robot.

Table of Contents

01 A Comparative Evaluation of Methods for Evolving a Cooperative Team
Takaya Arita and Yasuyuki Suzuki
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02 An Adaptive Penalty Method for Genetic Algorithms in Constrained Optimization Problems
Helio J. C. Barbosa and Afonso C. C. Lemonge
Downloads 399
03 Evolutionary-Based Control Approaches for Multirobot Systems
Jekanthan Thangavelautham, Timothy D. Barfoot and Gabriele M.T. D'Eleuterio
Downloads 261
04 Learning by Experience and by Imitation in Multi-Robot Systems
Dennis Barrios-Aranibar, Luiz M. G. Goncalves and Pablo Javier Alsina
Downloads 339
05 Cellular Non-linear Networks as a New Paradigm for Evolutionary Robotics
Eleonora Bilotta and Pietro Pantano
Downloads 366
06 Optimal Design of Mechanisms for Robot Hands
J.A. Cabrera, F. Nadal and A. Simon
Downloads 374
08 Real-Time Evolutionary Algorithms for Constrained Predictive Control
Mario Luca Fravolini, Antonio Ficola and Michele La Cava
Downloads 359
09 Applying Real-Time Survivability Considerations in Evolutionary Behavior Learning by a Mobile Robot
Wolfgang Freund, Tomas Arredondo V. and Cesar Munoz
Downloads 321
10 An Evolutionary MAP Filter for Mobile Robot Global Localization
L. Moreno, S. Garrido, M. L. Munoz and D. Blanco
Downloads 370
11 Learning to Walk with Model Assisted Evolution Strategies
Matthias Hebbel and Walter Nistico
Downloads 365
12 Evolutionary Morphology for Polycube Robots
Takahiro Tohge and Hitoshi Iba
Downloads 350
13 Mechanism of Emergent Symmetry Properties on Evolutionary Robotic System
Naohide Yasuda, Takuma Kawakami, Hiroaki Iwano, Katsuya Kanai, Koki Kikuchi and Xueshan Gao
Downloads 317
15 Evolutionary Parametric Identification of Dynamic Systems
Dimitris Koulocheris and Vasilis Dertimanis
Downloads 432
16 Evolutionary Computation of Multi-robot/agent Systems
Philippe Lucidarme
Downloads 328
18 Action Selection and Obstacle Avoidance using Ultrasonic and Infrared Sensors
Fernando Montes-Gonzalez, Daniel Flandes-Eusebio and Luis Pellegrin- Zazueta
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19 Multi-Legged Robot Control Using GA-Based Q-Learning Method With Neighboring Crossover
Tadahiko Murata and Masatoshi Yamaguchi
Downloads 314
20 Evolved Navigation Control for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Gregory J. Barlow and Choong K. Oh
Downloads 373
21 Application of Artificial Evolution to Obstacle Detection and Mobile Robot Control
Olivier Pauplin and Arnaud de La Fortelle
Downloads 402
25 Optimization of a 2 DOF Micro Parallel Robot Using Genetic Algorithms
Sergiu-Dan Stan, Vistrian Maties and Radu Balan
Downloads 462
26 Progressive Design through Staged Evolution
Ricardo A. Tellez and Cecilio Angulo
Downloads 331
28 Evolutionary Distributed Control of a Biologically Inspired Modular Robot
Sunil Pranit Lal and Koji Yamada
Downloads 329
29 Evolutionary Motion Design for Humanoid Robots
Toshihiko Yanase and Hitoshi Iba
Downloads 362