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Robota: Clever Toy and Educational Tool

Aude Billard

Therapeutic and educational applications of robots have created a demand for robots showing a number of social skills. These skills include the capacity to imitate, to learn from demonstration, to interpret gestures and to recognize speech. Robot toys are ...

2003

Evolving Vision-based Flying Robots

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey

We describe a new experimental approach whereby an indoor flying robot evolves the ability to navigate in a textured room using only visual information and neuromorphic control. The architecture of a spiking neural circuit, which is connected to the vision ...

2002

Neural Synthesis of Artificial Organisms through Evolution

Dario Floreano

Evolutionary robotics is the attempt to develop robots through a self-organized process based on artificial evolution. This approach stresses the importance of the study of systems that have a body and that are situated in a physical environment, and which ...

2002

Evolutionary Robotics. The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-organizing Machines

Dario Floreano

Evolutionary robotics is a new technique for the automatic creation of autonomous robots. Inspired by the Darwinian principle of selective reproduction of the fittest, it views robots as autonomous artificial organisms that develop their own skills in clos ...

MIT Press2001

Evolution of Spiking Neural Controllers for Autonomous Vision-based Robots

Dario Floreano, Claudio Mattiussi

We describe a set of preliminary experiments to evolve spiking neural controllers for a vision-based mobile robot. All the evolutionary experiments are carried out on physical robots without human intervention. After discussing how to implement and interfa ...

Springer-Verlag2001

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 Robots with Fast Adaptive Behavior in New Environments

Dario Floreano, Joseba Urzelai

This paper is concerned with adaptation capabilities of evolved neural controllers. A method consisting of encoding a set of local adaptation rules that synapses obey while the robot freely moves in the environment [6] is compared to a standard fixed-weigh ...

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

Artificial Evolution of Adaptive Software: An Application to Autonomous Robots

Dario Floreano, Joseba Urzelai

Artificial evolution of computer software (evolutionary neural networks, genetic programming, evolutionary fuzzy systems, etc.) has been shown to generate software that in many cases is more performant than that designed by engineers. Evolved software perf ...

2000

Evolutionary Robotics: Coping with Environmental Change

Dario Floreano, Joseba Urzelai

In this paper an evolutionary method consisting of encoding a set of local adaptation rules that synapses obey while a robot freely moves in the environment is compared to standard evolution of fixed-weight control networks. The results show ha evolutionar ...

2000