Leni K. Le Goff
Morpho-evolution with learning using a controller archive as an inheritance mechanism
Le Goff, Leni K.; Buchanan, Edgar; Hart, Emma; Eiben, Agoston E.; Li, Wei; De Carlo, Matteo; Winfield, Alan F.; Hale, Matthew F.; Woolley, Robert; Angus, Mike; Timmis, Jon; Tyrrell, Andy M.
Authors
Edgar Buchanan
Emma Hart
Agoston E. Eiben
Wei Li
Matteo De Carlo
Alan Winfield Alan.Winfield@uwe.ac.uk
Professor in Robotics
Matthew F. Hale
Robert Woolley
Mike Angus
Jon Timmis
Andy M. Tyrrell
Abstract
Most work in evolutionary robotics centres on evolving a controller for a fixed body-plan. However, previous studies suggest that simultaneously evolving both controller and body-plan could open up many interesting possibilities. However, the joint optimisation of body-plan and control via evolutionary processes can be challenging in rich morphological spaces. This is because offspring can have body-plans that are very different from either of their parents, leading to a potential mismatch between the structure of an inherited neural controller and the new body. To address this, we propose a framework that combines an evolutionary algorithm to generate body-plans and a learning algorithm to optimise the parameters of a neural controller. The topology of this controller is created once the body-plan of each offspring has been generated. The key novelty of the approach is to add an external archive for storing learned controllers that map to explicit ‘types’ of robots (where this is defined with respect to the features of the body-plan). By initiating learning from a controller with an appropriate structure inherited from the archive, rather than from a randomly initialised one, we show that both the speed and magnitude of learning increases over time when compared to an approach that starts from scratch, using two tasks and three environments. The framework also provides new insights into the complex interactions between evolution and learning.
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jan 16, 2022 |
Online Publication Date | Feb 2, 2022 |
Publication Date | Jun 30, 2023 |
Deposit Date | Mar 23, 2022 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems |
Print ISSN | 2379-8920 |
Electronic ISSN | 2379-8939 |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 15 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 507 - 517 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1109/tcds.2022.3148543 |
Keywords | Artificial Intelligence; Software; Evolutionary robotics; Embodied Intelligence; Robots , Optimization; Topology; Statistics; Sociology; Process control; Aerospace electronics |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9228321 |
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