Behavior emergence in autonomous robot control by means of evolutionary neural networks

Abstract

We study the emergence of intelligent behavior of a simple mobile robot. Robot control system is realized by mechanisms based on neural networks and evolutionary algorithms. The evolutionary algorithm is responsible for the adaptation of a neural network parameters based on the robot's performance in a simulated environment. In experiments, we demonstrate the performance of evolutionary algorithm on selected problems, namely maze exploration and discrimination of walls and cylinders. A comparison of different networks architectures is presented and discussed. © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009.