Abstract
Many a researcher in evolutionary robotics would love to have at his or her disposal a real
population of bopping critters. Toward this end, the ultimate goal of our work is twofold:
(1) to build a robot that is cheap, modular, and adaptable; and (2) to use a population of
such robots in evolutionary-robotics experiments. As a frst step in the study of adaptive
robotics using populations of cheap robots, we have designed the Lausanne trail, a real-world version of the simulated Santa Fe trail. We use Lego-based robots equipped with
low-cost sensors and actuators to evolve solutions in the real world to the trail-following
problem. We describe two different sets of experiments and conclude that the real-world
problem exhibits fundamental differences from the virtual one; in particular, the robot's
lack of positional information hinders greatly its performance. We propose to study in
the future collective map building, an important and interesting problem, which will,
among others, provide a solution to the Lausanne-trail problem
population of bopping critters. Toward this end, the ultimate goal of our work is twofold:
(1) to build a robot that is cheap, modular, and adaptable; and (2) to use a population of
such robots in evolutionary-robotics experiments. As a frst step in the study of adaptive
robotics using populations of cheap robots, we have designed the Lausanne trail, a real-world version of the simulated Santa Fe trail. We use Lego-based robots equipped with
low-cost sensors and actuators to evolve solutions in the real world to the trail-following
problem. We describe two different sets of experiments and conclude that the real-world
problem exhibits fundamental differences from the virtual one; in particular, the robot's
lack of positional information hinders greatly its performance. We propose to study in
the future collective map building, an important and interesting problem, which will,
among others, provide a solution to the Lausanne-trail problem
| Original language | English GB |
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| Title of host publication | Robotic and Manufacturing Systems |
| Subtitle of host publication | Recent Results in Research, Development and Applications |
| Editors | M. Jamshidi, A. A. Maciejewski, R. Lumia, S. Nahavandi |
| Place of Publication | Albuquerque, NM |
| Pages | 262-267 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Volume | 10 |
| State | Published - 2000 |
Publication series
| Name | TSI Press Series |
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