The distributed co-evolution of an embodied simulator and controller for swarm robot behaviours

O'Dowd, Paul; Winfield, Alan F.T.; Studley, Matthew

Abstract

Embodied fitness assessment of robotic controllers is slow but grounded, while assessment in a simulated environment is fast but can run foul of the ‘reality gap’. We present a distributed co-evolutionary method to adapt the environmental model of an on-board simulator within the context of swarm robotics.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (unpublished)
• Conference Name: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2011)
• Start Date: Sep 25, 2011
• End Date: Sep 30, 2011
• Publication Date: Sep 1, 2011
• Deposit Date: Jan 3, 2012
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 23, 2016
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 4995-5000
• Keywords: swarm robotics, evolutionary robotics
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/959883
• Publisher URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=6094600
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