Repository logo

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
  1. Home
  2. Academic and Research Output
  3. Conferences, Workshops, Symposiums, and Seminars
  4. On the Relationship Between Environmental and Mechanical Complexity in Evolved Robots
 
conference paper

On the Relationship Between Environmental and Mechanical Complexity in Evolved Robots

Auerbach, Joshua E.  
•
Bongard, Josh C.
2012
Artificial Life 13
International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems

According to the principles of embodied cognition, intelligent behavior must arise out of the coupled dynamics of an agent's brain, body, and environment. This suggests that the morphological complexity of a robot should scale in relation to the complexity of its task environment. This idea is supported by recent work, which demonstrated that when evolving robot morphologies in simple and complex task environments more complex robot morphologies do tend to evolve in more complex task environments. Here this idea is extended to examining the mechanical complexity of evolved robots. Counter to intuition it is found that the mechanical complexity decreases in more complex task environments.

  • Files
  • Details
  • Metrics
Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Name

auerbach_bongard_alife_2012.pdf

Access type

openaccess

Size

479.78 KB

Format

Adobe PDF

Checksum (MD5)

e65122d37fa3c9c172cefe2955b467ae

Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
  • Contact
  • infoscience@epfl.ch

  • Follow us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Instagram
  • Follow us on LinkedIn
  • Follow us on X
  • Follow us on Youtube
AccessibilityLegal noticePrivacy policyCookie settingsEnd User AgreementGet helpFeedback

Infoscience is a service managed and provided by the Library and IT Services of EPFL. © EPFL, tous droits réservés