Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines
暫譯: 進化機器人學:自我組織機器的生物學、智慧與技術

Stefano Nolfi, Dario Floreano

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2004-01-30
  • 售價: $1,470
  • 貴賓價: 9.8$1,441
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 332
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 0262640562
  • ISBN-13: 9780262640565
  • 相關分類: 機器人製作 Robots
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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 close interaction with the environment and without human intervention. Drawing heavily on biology and ethology, it uses the tools of neural networks, genetic algorithms, dynamic systems, and biomorphic engineering. The resulting robots share with simple biological systems the characteristics of robustness, simplicity, small size, flexibility, and modularity.

In evolutionary robotics, an initial population of artificial chromosomes, each encoding the control system of a robot, is randomly created and put into the environment. Each robot is then free to act (move, look around, manipulate) according to its genetically specified controller while its performance on various tasks is automatically evaluated. The fittest robots then "reproduce" by swapping parts of their genetic material with small random mutations. The process is repeated until the "birth" of a robot that satisfies the performance criteria.

This book describes the basic concepts and methodologies of evolutionary robotics and the results achieved so far. An important feature is the clear presentation of a set of empirical experiments of increasing complexity. Software with a graphic interface, freely available on a Web page, will allow the reader to replicate and vary (in simulation and on real robots) most of the experiments.

Dario Floreano is Professor of Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

 

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments ix
Preface xi
1 The role of self-organization for the synthesis and the understanding of behavioral systems 1
2 Evolutionary and neural techniques 19
3 How to evolve robots 49
4 Evolution of simple navigation 69
5 Power and limits of reactive intelligence 93
6 Beyond reactive intelligence 121
7 Learning and evolution 153
8 Competitive co-evolution 189
9 Encoding, mapping, and development 223
10 Complex hardware morphologies: Walking machines 241
11 Evolvable hardware 261
Conclusions 277
Notes 281
References 295
Index 317

商品描述(中文翻譯)

**描述:**
進化機器人學是一種自動創建自主機器人的新技術。它受到達爾文適者生存原則的啟發,將機器人視為自主的人工生物,這些生物在與環境的密切互動中發展自己的技能,且不需要人類的干預。進化機器人學大量借鑒生物學和動物行為學,使用神經網絡、遺傳算法、動態系統和生物形態工程等工具。所產生的機器人與簡單的生物系統共享堅固性、簡單性、小型化、靈活性和模組化等特徵。

在進化機器人學中,初始的人工染色體群體(每個染色體編碼一個機器人的控制系統)是隨機創建並放入環境中。每個機器人根據其基因指定的控制器自由行動(移動、觀察、操作),同時其在各種任務上的表現會自動評估。最適合的機器人然後通過交換其遺傳物質的部分並進行小的隨機突變來“繁殖”。這一過程會重複進行,直到“誕生”出滿足性能標準的機器人。

本書描述了進化機器人學的基本概念和方法論,以及迄今為止所取得的成果。一個重要的特點是清晰地展示了一組逐漸增加複雜性的實驗。具有圖形介面的軟體將在網頁上免費提供,讓讀者能夠複製和變更(在模擬和實際機器人上)大多數實驗。

Dario Floreano是瑞士聯邦理工學院的進化與自適應系統教授。

**目錄:**
- 致謝 ix
- 前言 xi
- 1 自組織在行為系統合成與理解中的角色 1
- 2 進化與神經技術 19
- 3 如何進化機器人 49
- 4 簡單導航的進化 69
- 5 反應智能的力量與限制 93
- 6 超越反應智能 121
- 7 學習與進化 153
- 8 競爭性共同進化 189
- 9 編碼、映射與發展 223
- 10 複雜硬體形態:行走機器 241
- 11 可進化硬體 261
- 結論 277
- 註釋 281
- 參考文獻 295
- 索引 317