Title
Evolution Of Spiking Neural Circuits In Autonomous Mobile Robots
Abstract
We describe evolution of spiking neural architectures to control navigation of autonomous mobile robots. Experimental results with simple fitness functions indicate that evolution can rapidly generate spiking circuits capable of navigating in textured environments with simple genetic representations that encode only the presence or absence of synaptic connections. Building on those results, we then describe a low-level implementation of evolutionary spiking circuits in tiny microcontrollers that capitalizes on compact genetic encoding and digital aspects of spiking neurons. The implementation is validated on a sugar-cube robot capable of developing functional spiking circuits for collision-free navigation. (c) 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1002/int.20173
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
genetics,fitness function
Evolutionary algorithm,Evolutionary robotics,Artificial intelligence,Autonomous system (mathematics),Robot,Artificial neural network,Spiking neural network,Mathematics,Mobile robot,Robotics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
21
9
0884-8173
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
17
0.93
11
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dario Floreano13400284.98
Yann Epars2988.05
Jean-Christophe Zufferey346746.55
Claudio Mattiussi473936.42