Evolutionary Robotics
A special issue of Robotics (ISSN 2218-6581).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2021) | Viewed by 12290
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last ten years or so, evolutionary robotics have attracted the interest of a large community of researchers with different research interests and backgrounds, ranging from AI and robotics, over biology and cognitive science, to the study of social behavior.
Continuous progress in evolutionary robotics has led to a substantial maturation of the field and a clearer understanding of its potential and of its current limitations. The goal of this Special Issue is to encourage researchers working in this field not only to present their most recent research, but also to discuss the relation with other related areas such as evolutionary computation, reinforcement learning, and developmental robotics.
Papers addressing (but not limited to) the following topics are welcome:
Body and brain co-evolution
Evolving soft robots
Evolutionary swarm robotics
Competitive co-evolution
Open-ended evolution
Robustness
Adaptation to faults and to dynamical environments
Behavioral and neural plasticity
Evolution and evolvability
Modularity and behavior arbitration
Evolution, development, and learning
Evolution of communication and language
Anticipation and sensory deprivation
World models
Benchmarking and good practices for evolutionary robotics
Prof. Dr. Stefano Nolfi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Autonomous robots
- Evolutionary computation
- Continuous control optimization
- Neuroevolution
- Morphological computation
- Embodied cognition
- Collective behavior
- Swarm intelligence
- Language evolution
- Open-ended evolution
- Self-play
- Soft robots
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