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2007 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Incremental Evolution of Stigmergy-Based Multi Robot Controllers Through Utility Functions
Authors : P. Caamaño, J. A. Becerra, R. J. Duro, F. Bellas
Published in: Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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This paper deals with the problem of jointly designing the behaviors of a group of robots so as to produce a particular desired collaborative behavior in stigmergy-based settings. In this line, the approach followed has its roots on traditional evolutionary behavior based robotics techniques, but instead of trying to evolve the whole controller for a particular complex behavior in one step, an incremental approach is used by combining the results from different evolutionary/learning processes in different settings for the construction of a complete controller architecture. The key aspects when trying to generalize the process of obtaining the controllers from single robots to multi robot systems are discussed in the framework of a set of simple collaborative tasks, focusing the discussion on the utility functions that guide the evolution.