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Evolution of Embodied Intelligence

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

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 i ...

Springer Verlag2004

Vision-based Navigation from Wheels to Wings

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Antoine Beyeler

We describe an incremental approach towards the development of autonomous indoor flyers that use only vision to navigate in textured environments. In order to cope with the severe weight and energy constraints of such systems, we use spiking neural control ...

2003

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

Active Vision and Feature Selection in Evolutionary Behavioral Systems

Dario Floreano

We describe an evolutionary approach to active vision systems for dynamic feature selection. After summarizing recent work on evolution of a simulated active retina for complex shape discrimination, we describe in detail experiments that extend this approa ...

2002

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

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

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

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 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

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