Use of context blocks in genetic programming for evolution of robot morphology

The paper explores application of genetic programming to evolution of robot morphology, and co-evolution of morphology and low-level control. Extensions to standard genetic programming are presented that allow for straight-forward storage, retrieval, transfer, modification of data stored in the cont...

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Main Authors: Gregor, M., Spalek, J., Capak, J.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
context blocks
genetic programming
Periodic structures
robot morphology evolution
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Summary:The paper explores application of genetic programming to evolution of robot morphology, and co-evolution of morphology and low-level control. Extensions to standard genetic programming are presented that allow for straight-forward storage, retrieval, transfer, modification of data stored in the context of a syntactic tree, and shared by multiple nodes. These extensions are used to embed a genetic algorithm within the genetic programming approach to evolve values of constants. Experimental results are presented and evaluated.
DOI:10.1109/ELEKTRO.2012.6225655