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Building a Fully Autonomous Tour Guide Robot: Where Academic Research Meets Industry

Roland Siegwart, Nicola Tomatis, Björn Jensen, Grégoire Terrien, Kai Oliver Arras, Roland Philippsen

This paper presents the effort that has been undertaken in designing and building both hardware and software for a fully autonomous navigating vehicle aimed for a tour guide application. The challenge for such a project is to combine industrial high qualit ...

2002

Improving the Expressiveness of Mobile Robots

Roland Siegwart, Björn Jensen

RoboX is a tour guide robot, designed to interact with visitors at Expo02, the Swiss National Exhibition. During five months, ten RoboXs will be in contact with people not trained to autonomous robots and will guide them throughout an exhibition about robo ...

2002

On the Origin of Environments by Means of Natural Selection

The field of adaptive robotics involves simulations and real-world implementations of robots that adapt to their environments. In this article, I introduce adaptive environmentics -- the flip side of adaptive robotics -- in which the environment adapts to ...

2002

Evolution of Plastic Control Networks

Dario Floreano, Joseba Urzelai

Evolutionary Robotics is a powerful method to generate efficient controllers with minimal human intervention, but its applicability to real-world problems remains a challenge because the method takes long time and it requires software simulations that do n ...

2001

Evolutionary Robotics: The Next Generation

Dario Floreano, Joseba Urzelai

After reviewing current approaches in Evolutionary Robotics, we point to directions of research that re likely to bring interesting results in the future. e then address two crucial aspects for future developments of Evolutionary Robotics: choice of fitnes ...

AAI Books2000

Evolutionary On-Line Self-Organization of Autonomous Robots

Dario Floreano, Joseba Urzelai

We review recent experiments in evolutionary robotics carried out in dynamic environments and across different robotic platforms. We then introduce a new evolutionary approach where robots are evolved for their ability to adapt online. Several experiments ...

2000

Evolutionary Robots with on-line self-organization and behavioral fitness

Dario Floreano, Joseba Urzelai

We address two issues in Evolutionary Robotics, namely the genetic encoding and the performance criterion, also known as fitness function. For the first aspect, we suggest to encode mechanisms for parameter self-organization, instead of the parameters them ...

2000

Hardware Solutions for Evolutionary Robotics

Dario Floreano, Francesco Mondada

Evolutionary robotics - as other adaptive methods, such as reinforcement learning and learning classifier systems - can take considerable time and resources which require a careful evaluation of the hardware tools and methodologies employed. We outline a s ...

Springer1998

Evolutionary Re-Adaptation of Neurocontrollers in Changing Environments

Dario Floreano

Evolutionary robotics is an interesting novel approach to shape the control system of autonomous robots. This explores issues related to re-adaptation in changed environments of a population of evolved individuals. Experimental studies are reported for gen ...

1996

How to Evolve Autonomous Robots: Different Approaches in Evolutionary Robotics

Dario Floreano, Francesco Mondada

A methodology for evolving the control systems of autonomous robots has not yet been well established. In this paper we will show different examples of applications of evolutionary robotics to real robots by describing three different approaches to develop ...

MA: MIT Press1994