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Competitive Co-evolution of Predator and Prey Sensory-Motor Systems

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Applications of Evolutionary Computing (EvoWorkshops 2003)

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A recent trend in evolutionary robotics research is to maximize selforganization in the design of robotic systems in order to reduce the human designer bias. This article presents simulation experiments that extend Nolfi and Floreano's work on competitive co-evolution of neural robot controllers in a predator-prey scenario and integrate it with ideas from work on the ‘coevolution’ of robot morphology and control systems. The aim of the twenty-one experiments summarized here has been to systematically investigate the tradeoffs and interdependencies between morphological parameters and behavioral strategies through a series of predator-prey experiments in which increasingly many aspects are subject to self-organization through competitive co-evolution. The results illustrate that competitive co-evolution has great potential as a method for the automatic design of robotic systems.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Skövde, Box 408, 541 28, Skövde, Sweden

    Gunnar Búason & Tom Ziemke

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  1. Dept. of Computer Engineering, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 181/a, 43100, Parma, Italy

    Stefano Cagnoni

  2. Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NF, UK

    Colin G. Johnson

  3. Dept. of Information and Communications Technologies Faculty of Computer Science, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, CP 15071, Spain

    Juan J. Romero Cardalda

  4. Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Free University of Amsterdam, de Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Elena Marchiori

  5. Schol of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, PO Box 225, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AY, UK

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  8. Parallel Computing and Complex Systems Group, University of Leipzig, Augustusplatz 10/11, 04109, Leipzig, Germany

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  9. Algorithms and Data Structures Group Institute of Computer Graphics, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstrasse 9-11/186, 1040, Vienna, Austria

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Búason, G., Ziemke, T. (2003). Competitive Co-evolution of Predator and Prey Sensory-Motor Systems. In: Cagnoni, S., et al. Applications of Evolutionary Computing. EvoWorkshops 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2611. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36605-9_55

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