How Co-Evolution can Enhance the Adaptive Power of Artificial Evolution: Implications for Evolutionary Robotics

On Feasibility of Adaptive Level Hardware Evolution for Emergent Fault Tolerant Communication

A permanent physical fault in communication lines usually leads to a failure. The feasibility of evolution of a self organized communication is studied in this paper to defeat this problem. In this case a communication protocol may emerge between blocks and also can adapt itself to environmental changes like physical faults and defects. In spite of faults, blocks may continue to function since ...

Coevolving Predator and Prey Robots: Do "Arms Races" Arise in Artificial Evolution?

Coevolution (i.e., the evolution of two or more competing populations with coupled fitness) has several features that may potentially enhance the power of adaptation of artificial evolution. In particular, as discussed by Dawkins and Krebs [3], competing populations may reciprocally drive one another to increasing levels of complexity by producing an evolutionary "arms race." In this article we...

Developing Adaptive Differential Evolution as a New Evolutionary Algorithm, Application in Optimization of Chemical Processes

Evolving cognitive scaffolding and environment adaptation: a new research direction for evolutionary robotics

Many researchers in embodied cognitive science and AI, and evolutionary robotics in particular, emphasize the interaction of brain, body and environment as crucial to the emergence of intelligent, adaptive behavior. Accordingly, the interaction between agent and environment, as well as the co-adaptation of artificial brains and bodies has been the focus of much research in evolutionary robotics...

On the Evolutionary Co-Adaptation of Morphology and Distributed Neural Controllers in Adaptive Agents

Mariagiovanna Mazzapioda On the Evolutionary Co-Adaptation of Morphology and Distributed Neural Controllers in Adaptive Agents The attempt to evolve complete embodied and situated artificial creatures in which both morphological and control characteristics are adapted during the evolutionary process has been and still represents a long term goal key for the artificial life and the evolutionary ...