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Evolution of Embodied Intelligence

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Embodied Artificial Intelligence

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 3139))

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We provide an overview of the evolutionary approach to the emergence of artificial intelligence in embodied behavioral agents. This approach, also known as Evolutionary Robotics, builds and capitalizes upon the interactions between the embodied agent and its environment. Although we cover research carried out in several laboratories around the world, the choice of topics and approaches is based on work carried out at EPFL. We describe a large number of experiments including evolution of single robots in environments of increasing complexity, competitive and cooperative evolution, evolution of vision-based systems, evolution of learning, and evolution of electronics and morphologies for autonomous robots.

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  1. Autonomous Systems Laboratory (ASL) Institute of Systems Engineering (I2S) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

    Dario Floreano, Francesco Mondada, Andres Perez-Uribe & Daniel Roggen

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  1. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Andreasstrasse 15, CH-8050, Zurich, Switzerland

    Fumiya Iida  & Rolf Pfeifer  & 

  2. VUB AI Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

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  3. JST ERATO Asada Synergistic Intelligence Project,  

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Floreano, D., Mondada, F., Perez-Uribe, A., Roggen, D. (2004). Evolution of Embodied Intelligence. In: Iida, F., Pfeifer, R., Steels, L., Kuniyoshi, Y. (eds) Embodied Artificial Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3139. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27833-7_23

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