Title :
Use of context blocks in genetic programming for evolution of robot morphology
Author :
Gregor, Michal ; Spalek, Juraj ; Capak, Jan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Control & Inf. Syst., Univ. of Zilina, Zilina, Slovakia
Abstract :
The paper explores application of genetic programming to evolution of robot morphology, and co-evolution of morphology and low-level control. Extensions to standard genetic programming are presented that allow for straight-forward storage, retrieval, transfer, modification of data stored in the context of a syntactic tree, and shared by multiple nodes. These extensions are used to embed a genetic algorithm within the genetic programming approach to evolve values of constants. Experimental results are presented and evaluated.
Keywords :
genetic algorithms; mobile robots; trees (mathematics); context blocks; data modification; data retrieval; data straight-forward storage; data transfer; genetic algorithm; genetic programming; low-level control; morphology coevolution; robot morphology evolution; syntactic tree; Periodic structures; context blocks; genetic programming; robot morphology evolution;
Conference_Titel :
ELEKTRO, 2012
Conference_Location :
Rajeck Teplice
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1180-9
DOI :
10.1109/ELEKTRO.2012.6225655