Year: 2022
Type: preprint
Abstract: The field of evolutionary robotics uses principles of natural evolution to design robots. In this paper, we study the effect of adding a new module inspired by the skeletal muscle to the existing RoboGen framework: the linear actuator. Additionally, we investigate how robots evolved in a plain environment differ from robots evolved in a rough environment. We consider the task of directed locomotion for comparing evolved robot morphologies. The results show that the addition of the linear actuator does not have a significant impact on the performance and morphologies of robots evolved in a plain environment. However, we find significant differences in the morphologies of robots evolved in a plain environment and robots evolved in a rough environment. We find that more complex behavior and morphologies emerge when we change the terrain of the environment.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Oud, Steven, van der Pool, Koen
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4226445944