The Emergence of Multi-Cellular Robot Organisms through On-line On-board Evolution

B.P.M. Weel; E.W. Haasdijk; A.E. Eiben

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-29178-4_13

The Emergence of Multi-Cellular Robot Organisms through On-line On-board Evolution

B.P.M. Weel, E.W. Haasdijk, A.E. Eiben

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We investigate whether a swarm of robots can evolve controllers that cause aggregation into 'multi-cellular' robot organisms without a specific reward to do so. To this end, we create a world where aggregated robots receive more energy than individual ones and enable robots to evolve their controllers on-the-fly, during their lifetime. We perform experiments in six different implementations of the basic idea distinguished by the system of energy distribution and the level of advantage aggregated robots have over individual ones. The results show that 'multi-cellular' robot organisms emerge in all of these cases. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	124-134
Journal	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	7248
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29178-4_13
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	EvoApplications - Duration: 11 Apr 2012 → 13 Apr 2012

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Proceedings title: Applications of Evolutionary Computation: Proceedings of EvoApplications 2012
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 978-3-642-29178-4
Editors: C di Chio

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