Research Catalog

Title

Evolutionary robotics : the biology, intelligence, and technology of self-organizing machines / Stefano Nolfi and Dario Floreano.

Author

Nolfi, Stefano.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Additional Authors

Floreano, Dario.

Description

320 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"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 roots 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Intelligent robots and autonomous agents

Uniform Title

Intelligent robots and autonomous agents.

Subjects

• Robotique évolutive
• Evolutionary robotics
• Inteligência artificial
• Aprendizado computacional

Note

• "A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-315) and index.

Contents

1. The role of self-organization for the synthesis and the understanding of behavioral systems -- 2. Evolutionary and neural techniques -- 3. How to evolve robots -- 4. Evolution of simple navigation -- 5. Power and limits of reactive intelligence -- 6. Beyond reactive intelligence -- 7. Learning and evolution -- 8. Competitive co-evolution -- 9. Encoding, mapping, and development -- 10. Complex hardware morphologies: Walking machines -- 11. Evolvable hardware.

ISBN

0262140705 (hc)

LCCN

00028172

OCLC

• ocm43591135
• SCSB-5149901

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries