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- From: rgasch@nl.oracle.com (Robert Gasch)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai.genetic
- Subject: Re: Use of Genetic Algorithms to evolve robot behavior?
- Message-ID: <3459@nlsun1.oracle.nl>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 12:58:46 GMT
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- Walter Alden Tackett (tackett@ipld01.hac.com) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- About 2 years ago I wrote a program on the Mac (Ok, Ok ... I've moved
- on to UNIX :-)) which defined a (somewhat limited) syntax for
- robots which could be programmed to move around a landscape and
- pick up energy, and perform a few simple actions based on their
- evaluation of the environment.
- After a while of running you would get stable populations which, if they
- were too successful, would then starve. I stopped running this simualtion
- after a while because I was fed up with tinkering with the Mac's
- memory model which required all sort of tricks to expand the simualtion
- into what I felt would have been better settings.
-
- I have recently thought about porting this to UNIX XWindows but if I
- ever get around to it, it will take quite some time to adapt all the
- display routines.
-
- ----> Robert
-
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