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2007
Conference Paper
Titel
Automatic Design of a Whisker-Equipped Robot by Co-Evolving the Morphology and the Controller
Abstract
In this paper we present a method to design a robot with respect to a given task, without knowing anything about the environment. Therefore, we tackle the difficult problem to design the morphology of the robot and the controller in common. The method we propose is Evolutionary Computing based Co-evolution. The fitness function is aligned with the robotic task of exploring environments. We have improved the reached performance of previous work which was not using a co-evolution approach. The Evolutionary Algorithm used here, showed to be rather independent of the size of the population in a wide range. The results show that the presented approach is feasible to co-evolve robots for a given task just by specifying the fitness function.