- Hardcover: 332 pages
- Publisher: MIT Press (9 Jan 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0262140705
- ISBN-13: 978-0262140706
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 18.4 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,276,876 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Highly recommended for all involved in the field of evolutionary robotics. It will be an important reference for experimental and theoretical studies in evolutionary robotics for quite some time." - Horatiu Voicu, AI Magazine; "An informative and inspiring book that provides a thorough examination of the subject." - Industrial Robot: An International Journal"
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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. 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.
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embodied artificial evolution,
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This review is from: Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology, Intelligence and Technology of Self-organizing Machines (Intelligent Robotics & Autonomous Agents) (Hardcover)
the authors summarize their experience in the field of artificial life. Most of their work is achieved trough experiments with real robots whose control systems are evolved with several techniques. By comparing the results of these experiments the authors try to achive a better theoretical insight of this relativelly new field. Their work contains lot of nice and clear design ideas and many interesting results... the book is a weighted resume of their work and theoretical results. good stuff.
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Really great stuff,
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This review is from: Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology, Intelligence and Technology of Self-organizing Machines (Intelligent Robotics & Autonomous Agents) (Hardcover)
This is a not too technical book, introducing you to evolutionary robotics. It covers a lot of interesting work done in the field over the last few years. Using genetic algorithms it is possible to construct the brain of a robot ( Neural network ), and even (though harder) the hardware itself. The book gives an introduction to genetic algortihms & artificial neural networks, but the reader should still be somewhat familiar with these concepts before buying this book. After reading this book, I did one of the experiments mentioned in the book. While I only did this with a freeware Kephara robot simulator, it was still fun. 2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Really great stuff,
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This review is from: Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology, Intelligence and Technology of Self-organizing Machines (Intelligent Robotics & Autonomous Agents) (Hardcover)
This is a not too technical book, introducing you to evolutionary robotics. It covers a lot of interesting work done in the field over the last few years. Using genetic algorithms it is possible to construct the brain of a robot ( Neural network ), and even (though harder) the hardware itself. The book gives an introduction to genetic algortihms & artificial neural networks, but the reader should still be somewhat familiar with these concepts before buying this book. After reading this book, I did one of the experiments mentioned in the book. While I only did this with a freeware Kephara robot simulator, it was still fun. 0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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