Environmental influences on evolvable robots.
Journal
PloS one
ISSN: 1932-6203
Titre abrégé: PLoS One
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101285081
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2020
2020
Historique:
received:
03
12
2019
accepted:
13
05
2020
entrez:
30
5
2020
pubmed:
30
5
2020
medline:
18
8
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The field of Evolutionary Robotics addresses the challenge of automatically designing robotic systems. Furthermore, the field can also support biological investigations related to evolution. In this paper, we evolve (simulated) modular robots under diverse environmental conditions and analyze the influences that these conditions have on the evolved morphologies, controllers, and behavior. To this end, we introduce a set of morphological, controller, and behavioral descriptors that together span a multi-dimensional trait space. Using these descriptors, we demonstrate how changes in environmental conditions induce different levels of differentiation in this trait space. Our main goal is to gain deeper insights into the effect of the environment on a robotic evolutionary process.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32470076
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0233848
pii: PONE-D-19-33498
pmc: PMC7259730
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e0233848Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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