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- From: lains@world.std.com (Layne L Ainsworth)
- Subject: Use of Genetic Algorithms to evolve robot behavior?
- Message-ID: <C0K8zq.54A@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:21:25 GMT
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- (A third attempt to post this article)
- (Somebody mail me if I am posting this a million times, 'cause I sure
- don't see it in these groups)
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- Has anyone tried to do this:
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- "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
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