- Full title Diseño coevolutivo de sensores y actuadores virtuales, morfología y arquitectura cognitiva en robótica móvil
- Funding entity Xunta de Galicia
- Researchers Francisco Javier Bellas Bouza, Santiago Vázquez Rodríguez, Jesús Angel Gomollón García, Juan Luis Crespo Mariño, José Santos Reyes, Adolfo Lamas Rodríguez, José Antonio Becerra Permuy, Richard J Duro Fernández
- Start date 13/08/2002
- End date 30/09/2004
- Universidade da Coruña
Description
In this project evolutionary design has been used to obtain levels of sensorisation and virtual actions automatically. Virtual actions are needed to achieve independence between the architecture of cognitive control and the robot platform. Furthermore, the optimal robot morphology and simultaneous control architecture are also meant to be obtained in an automatic way.
In the design phase, co-operative co-evolution makes it possible to get sensing modules and appropriate virtual action as well as the incremental behaviour architecture for different tasks of a single robot or different multi-robot systems. We have used the alternative of competitive co-evolution in anticompetitive behaviour between several identical robots or ones with different kinds of sensorisation.
At the same time, the same co-evolutionary methodology is used cooperatively in an evolutionary environment in order to achieve the complete morphology of a robot with its control mechanism. Moreover, optimum mechanical robotic structures for specific types of behaviour are being studied.