Title
Developing evolutionary neural controllers for teams of mobile robots playing a complex game
Abstract
This research develops methods of automating the production of behavioral robotics controllers. Population-based artificial evolution was employed to train neural network-based controllers to play a robotic version of the team game Capture the Flag. The robot agents used processed video data for sensing their environment. To accommodate the 35 to 150 sensor inputs required, large neural networks of arbitrary connectivity and structure were evolved. An intra-population competitive genetic algorithm was used and selection at each generation was based on whether the different controllers won or lost games over the course of a tournament. This paper focuses on the evolutionary neural controller architecture. Evolved controllers were tested in a series of competitive games and transferred to real robots for physical verification.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1109/IRI.2003.1251416
IRI
Keywords
Field
DocType
competitive algorithms,genetic algorithms,learning (artificial intelligence),mobile robots,neurocontrollers,artificial evolution,behavioral robotics,competitive games,complex game playing,evolutionary neural computing,evolutionary neural controllers,evolutionary robotics,genetic algorithm,mobile robot teams,neural controllers,neural networks,robot colonies
Intelligent control,Population,Evolutionary acquisition of neural topologies,Evolutionary algorithm,Evolutionary robotics,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Behavior-based robotics,Robot,Mobile robot
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7803-8242-0
2
0.39
References 
Authors
17
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrew L. Nelson1985.23
edward g grant233.32
Gordon K. Lee39629.59