A survey on evolutionary-aided design in robotics

Shanker Radhakrishna Prabhu, Richard Seals, Peter Kyberd, Jodie Wetherall

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    Abstract

    The evolutionary-aided design process is a method to find solutions to design and optimisation problems. Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are applied to search for optimal solutions from a solution space that evolves over several generations. EAs have found applications in many areas of robotics. This paper covers the efforts to determine body morphology of robots through evolution and body morphology with the controller of robots or similar creatures through co-evolution. The works are reviewed from the perspective of how different algorithms are applied and includes a brief explanation of how they are implemented.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1804-1821
    Number of pages17
    JournalRobotica
    Volume36
    Issue number12
    Early online date17 Aug 2018
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Dec 2018

    Keywords

    • Evolutionary robotics (ER)
    • Co-evolution
    • Morphology evolution
    • Evolutionary-aided design

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