Evolutionary Robotics: a Survey of Applications and Problems
Résumé
This paper reviews evolutionary approaches to the automatic design of real robots exhibiting a given behavior in a given environment. Such a methodology has been successfully applied to various wheeled and legged robots, and to numerous behaviors including wall-following, obstacle-avoidance, light-seeking, arena cleaning and target seeking. Its potentialities and limitations are discussed in the text and directions for future work are outlined.