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- From: rice@sumex-aim.Stanford.EDU (James Rice)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai.genetic
- Subject: Re: Use of Genetic Algorithms to evolve robot behavior?
- Date: 7 Jan 93 16:43:00
- Organization: Knowledge Systems Lab, Stanford University
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- In-reply-to: lains@world.std.com's message of Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:45:35 GMT
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- In article <C0ICnz.o6@world.std.com> lains@world.std.com (Layne L Ainsworth) writes:
-
- Has anyone tried to do this:
-
- "Herds" of cheap (really cheap), reprogrammable robots, each loaded
- with one set of the test "chromosome" population of a Genetic
- Algorithm system. They could be evaluated to optimize indivdual
- performance, or "hive" well-being. Each "generation" would be the
- same robots, with a new generation of "chromosomes" on board.
-
- Pointers to papers or discussion of the feasibility of such a project
- would both be welcome. I would think this could be a job for the
- much-heralded and -scorned MiniBoard. Wire up all the connections to
- various sensors/actuators and let the herd discover uses for them.
-
- My dream, of course, is a bunch of robots that (who?) could
- continuously clean my house. :-)
-
- Thanks.
-
- -Layne
-
- I don't know of anyone who has done anything like this with real
- robots, but I do know of instances of using genetic models to
- program robotic behaviour under simulation.
-
- John Koza's "Genetic Programming: On the programming of computers by
- means of natural selection" from MIT press (1992) has examples of this
- in simulation.
-
- "Genetic Programming - the Movie" Koza & Rice MIT Press 1992 has
- visualisations of the learned robotic behaviour.
-
- (Am I beginning to sound like a broken record?)
-
- As well as these I know that Craig Reynolds <cwr@white.sww.symbolics.com>
- has been looking at the genetic evolution of flocking/swarm
- behaviour. Koza's book also covers emergent behaviour of ants
- (actually it covers 81 different problem domains, so the GP
- question is likely to be a reasonable answer to a wide set
- of queries similar to your's. The movie covers >20 diffeent
- problem domains).
-
- There's a student at Stanford, whose name escapes me who's
- used GP to program Beer's six legged robot. If you want
- I can doubtless dig up a pointer.
-
- Craig Reynolds had a paper at the Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour
- conference in Hawaii last month, but I haven't seen it yet.
-
-
- As of a couple of days ago, there is now a GP mailing list.
- Send mail to Genetic-Programming-Request@CS.Stanford.Edu to
- subscribe.
-
-
-
- Rice.
-