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ICAIS 2011: Adaptive and Intelligent Systems pp 227–237Cite as

Regenerative Abilities in Modular Robots Using Virtual Embryogenesis

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One task in the field of modular robotics is to develop robotic organisms as fault-tolerant as possible. Even in case of damage of the robotic organism, the robotic units have to be able to autonomously repair the organism. We have adapted a technique called Virtual Embryogenesis (VE) to the problem of self organised assembly of a robotic organism, and tested the ability of the VE to regenerate damage of the organism. It showes, that due to randomly appearing events during the evolutionary process, that shapes the VE-process, the developed robotic organism has regenerative abilities.

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    Ronald Thenius, Markus Dauschan, Thomas Schmickl & Karl Crailsheim

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Thenius, R., Dauschan, M., Schmickl, T., Crailsheim, K. (2011). Regenerative Abilities in Modular Robots Using Virtual Embryogenesis. In: Bouchachia, A. (eds) Adaptive and Intelligent Systems. ICAIS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6943. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23857-4_24

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