Evolving Folding Bodies and Brains in Origami Robots

Flanagan, R. and Nitschke, G. (2023) Evolving Folding Bodies and Brains in Origami Robots, Proceedings of 2023 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2023), 24-28 July 2023, Sapporo, Japan, MIT Press.

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Abstract

Evolutionary robotics has produced a vast array of adaptive design paradigms applicable to body-brain (controller-morphology) adaptation. However, within the purview of adaptive body-brain evolutionary robotic architectures, folding (origami) robotics has received relatively little research attention. An open problem in evolutionary robotics, and more broadly embodied evolution, is how to automatically design robots that are general problem-solvers across various task environments. Proposals include AutoFacs: self-designing methods for producing novel robot (body-brain) designs for given environments, evaluated as problem-solvers in such environments and then re-configured (with adapted body-brain designs) for the next generation of robots.

Item Type:	Conference paper
Subjects:	Computing methodologies > Artificial intelligence
Date Deposited:	09 Nov 2023 09:37
Last Modified:	09 Nov 2023 09:37
URI:	https://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/1595

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