Shorten, David and Nitschke, Geoff (2016) The Evolution of Evolvability in Evolutionary Robotics, Proceedings of 15th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE VX), Cancun, Mexico, 260-267, MIT Press.
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Abstract
Previous research has demonstrated that computational models of Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) can adapt so as to increase their evolvability, where evolvability is defined as a population’s responsiveness to environmental change. In such previous work, phenotypes have been represented as bit strings formed by concatenating the activations of the GRN after simulation. This research is an extension where previous results supporting the evolvability of GRNs are replicated, however, the phenotype space is enriched with time and space dynamics with an evolutionary robotics task environment. It was found that a GRN encoding used in the evolution of a way-point navigation behavior in a fluctuating environment results in (robot controller) populations becoming significantly more responsive (evolvable) over time. This is as compared to a direct encoding of controllers which was unable to improve it’s evolvability in the same task environment.
| Item Type: | Conference paper |
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| Subjects: | Computing methodologies > Artificial intelligence |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Nov 2017 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Oct 2019 15:32 |
| URI: | http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/1192 |
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