Biodiversity in evolved voxel-based soft robots
Eric Medvet, Alberto Bartoli, Federico Pigozzi, Marco Rochelli
2021Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference49 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF
Abstract
In many natural environments, there are different forms of living creatures that successfully accomplish the same task while being diverse in shape and behavior. This biodiversity is what made life capable of adapting to disrupting changes. Being able to reproduce biodiversity in non-biological agents, while still optimizing them for a particular task, might increase their applicability to scenarios where human response to unexpected changes is not possible.
Topics & Concepts
CreaturesBiodiversityTask (project management)Computer scienceRobotNatural (archaeology)Artificial intelligenceHuman–computer interactionEcologyEngineeringGeologyBiologyPaleontologySystems engineeringModular Robots and Swarm IntelligenceMicro and Nano RoboticsAdvanced Materials and Mechanics