2 papers
cs.NE2018
An Investigation of Environmental Influence on the Benefits of Adaptation Mechanisms in Evolutionary Swarm Robotics
Andreas Steyven, Emma Hart, Ben Paechter
A robotic swarm that is required to operate for long periods in a potentially unknown environment can use both evolution and individual learning methods in order to adapt. However,…
cs.NE2018
Evolution of a Functionally Diverse Swarm via a Novel Decentralised Quality-Diversity Algorithm
Emma Hart, Andreas S. W. Steyven, Ben Paechter
The presence of functional diversity within a group has been demonstrated to lead to greater robustness, higher performance and increased problem-solving ability in a broad range o…