Comparing lifetime learning methods for morphologically evolving robots

Fuda Van Diggelen, E. Ferrante, A. E. Eiben

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Abstract

The joint evolution of morphologies and controllers of robots leads to a problem: Even if the parents have well-matching bodies and brains, the stochastic recombination can break this match and cause a body-brain mismatch in their offspring. This can be mitigated by having newborn robots perform a learning process that optimizes their inherited brain quickly after birth. An adequate learning method should work on all possible robot morphologies and be efficient. In this paper we apply Bayesian Optimization and Differential Evolution as learning algorithms and compare them on a test suite of different robot bodies.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationGECCO 2021 Companion - Proceedings of the 2021 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages93-94
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781450383516
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 7 2021
Event2021 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2021 - Virtual, Online, France
Duration: Jul 10 2021Jul 14 2021

Publication series

NameGECCO 2021 Companion - Proceedings of the 2021 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion

Conference

Conference2021 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2021
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityVirtual, Online
Period7/10/217/14/21

Keywords

  • evolutionary robotics
  • lifetime learning
  • morphological evolution

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Software
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics

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