Evolving team behaviors with specialization

G.S. Nitschke; A.E. Eiben; M.C. Schut

doi:10.1007/s10710-012-9166-5

Evolving team behaviors with specialization

G.S. Nitschke, A.E. Eiben, M.C. Schut

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This article evaluates Collective Neuro-Evolution (CONE), a cooperative co-evolutionary method for solving collective behavior tasks and increasing task performance via facilitating behavioral specialization in agent teams. Specialization is used as a problem solving mechanism, and its emergence is guided and regulated by CONE. CONE is comparatively evaluated with related methods in a simulated evolutionary robotics pursuit-evasion task. This task required multiple pursuer robots to cooperatively capture evader robots. Results indicate that CONE is appropriate for evolving specialized behaviors. The interaction of specialized behaviors produces behavioral heterogeneity in teams and collective prey capture behaviors that yield significantly higher performances compared to related methods. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	493-536
Number of pages	44
Journal	Genetic programming and evolvable machines
Volume	13
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10710-012-9166-5
Publication status	Published - 2012

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