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Author(s): | Silva, F. Urbano, P. Oliveira, S. Christensen, A. L. |
Date: | 2012 |
Title: | OdNEAT: An algorithm for distributed online, onboard evolution of robot behaviours |
Book title/volume: | Artificial Life 13: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE 2012 |
Pages: | 251 - 258 |
Event title: | 13th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems: Artificial Life 13, ALIFE 2012 |
Reference: | Silva, F., Urbano, P., Oliveira, S., & Christensen, A. L. (2012). OdNEAT: An algorithm for distributed online, onboard evolution of robot behaviours. In Artificial Life 13: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE 2012 (pp. 251-258). MIT. https://doi.org/10.7551/978-0-262-31050-5-ch034 |
ISBN: | 978-026231050-5 |
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | 10.7551/978-0-262-31050-5-ch034 |
Abstract: | We propose and evaluate a novel approach called Online Distributed NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (odNEAT). odNEAT is a completely distributed evolutionary algorithm for online learning in groups of embodied agents such as robots. While previous approaches to online distributed evolution of neural controllers have been limited to the optimisation of weights, odNEAT evolves both weights and network topology. We demonstrate odNEAT through a series of simulation-based experiments in which a group of e-puck-like robots must perform an aggregation task. Our results show that robots are capable of evolving effective aggregation strategies and that sustainable behaviours evolve quickly. We show that odNEAT approximates the performance of rtNEAT, a similar but centralised method. We also analyse the contribution of each algorithmic component on the performance through a series of ablation studies. |
Peerreviewed: | yes |
Access type: | Open Access |
Appears in Collections: | IT-CRI - Comunicações a conferências internacionais |
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