New Horizons in Evolutionary Robotics
Extended Contributions from the 2009 EvoDeRob Workshop
Editors: Doncieux, Stéphane, Bredeche, Nicolas, Mouret, Jean-Baptiste (Eds.)
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- Edited outcome of the 2009 EvoDeRob workshop held October 11, in St. Louis, Missouri
- Written by leading experts in the field
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Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) now provide mature optimization tools that have successfully been applied to many problems, from designing antennas to complete robots, and provided many human-competitive results. In robotics, the integration of EAs within the engineer’s toolbox made tremendous progress in the last 20 years and proposes new methods to address challenging problems in various setups: modular robotics, swarm robotics, robotics with non-conventional mechanics (e.g. high redundancy, dynamic motion, multi-modality), etc.
This book takes its roots in the workshop on "New Horizons in Evolutionary Design of Robots" that brought together researchers from Computer Science and Robotics during the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2009) in Saint Louis (USA). This book features extended contributions from the workshop, thus providing various examples of current problems and applications, with a special emphasis on the link between Computer Science and Robotics. It also provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to Evolutionary Robotics after 20 years of maturation as well as thoughts and considerations from several major actors in the field.
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the current trends and challenges in Evolutionary Robotics for the next decade.
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Evolutionary Robotics: Exploring New Horizons
Pages 3-25
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The ‘What’, ‘How’ and the ‘Why’ of Evolutionary Robotics
Pages 29-35
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Why Evolutionary Robotics Will Matter
Pages 37-41
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Evolutionary Algorithms in the Design of Complex Robotic Systems
Pages 43-52
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Evolving Monolithic Robot Controllers through Incremental Shaping
Pages 55-65
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- New Horizons in Evolutionary Robotics
- Book Subtitle
- Extended Contributions from the 2009 EvoDeRob Workshop
- Editors
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- Stéphane Doncieux
- Nicolas Bredeche
- Jean-Baptiste Mouret
- Series Title
- Studies in Computational Intelligence
- Series Volume
- 341
- Copyright
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-642-18272-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-18272-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-18271-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-26721-5
- Series ISSN
- 1860-949X
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 228
- Topics
