Letting Robots Build Their Own Bodies And Make Their Own Minds

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Letting Robots Build Their Own Bodies And Make Their Own Minds 

A 3 minutes presentation about my PhD research on the co-evolution of morphology and behavior in swarm robotics.

#robotics   #swarmrobotics   #swarms   #coevolution   #morphologicalcomputation      #3dprinting   #geneticalgorithms   #evolution   #artificialintelligence   #artificialevolution   #jessicameyer   #uwe   #brl   #bristol   #3mt   #epuck  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTx1itvOjKg&feature=share

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  1. Wayne RadinskyApril 4, 2015 at 11:40 PM

    3 minutes is too short!

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  2. Debra RobertsApril 5, 2015 at 3:00 PM

    What a fascinating field of research! The work you are doing can really make a positive change! Keep up the great work!

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  3. Jessica MeyerApril 21, 2015 at 7:37 PM

    Wayne Radinsky There's a 5 minutes presentation that I gave during the Bristol Bright Night. It is still short, but I explain more how the artificial evolution works: https://youtu.be/BYStnZ3w9gI

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  4. Wayne RadinskyApril 22, 2015 at 4:06 AM

    Thanks, Jessica Meyer, I'll watch it soon!

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  5. Wayne RadinskyMay 10, 2015 at 10:42 PM

    So you are doing this "evolution" in a simulation, but it sounds like you can do this "evolution" process in reality, in the real world in a disaster site or on another planet? I'm a little confused on this point because in the talk you don't seem to say it will work on another planet or at a disaster site but don't describe constructing any actual robots, so it seems like you evolve the robots in simulation.

    The robots presumably have a "genome" that specifies the body plan, for example maybe there is a byte the specifies "number of arms". Seems to me like the encoding method of this "genome" is what ultimately limits the body plans that can be evolved, no?

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  6. Jessica MeyerMay 10, 2015 at 10:56 PM

    Wayne Radinsky if they take a 3d printer to another planet and the evolution is turned on for the real robots, every generation a new shape can be printed and the robots could be taught/programmed to attach the new body shape to themselves without needing human intervention. For disaster scenarios, we could run experiments beforehand covering several situations and start the evolution on the specific scenario already from a pre-evolved situation. The pre-evolution could be on real robots or on simulation.

    In my experiments the genome does indeed limit the possible outcomes. But once transferred to real life applications they can be adjusted to how much freedom we want to give the evolution, depending on the situation and application.

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  7. Wayne RadinskyMay 11, 2015 at 1:37 AM

    In your experiments, are you testing the genomes in a simulation or 3D printing robot body plans? Once the body plan is printed, how do the robots "learn" to control the body? It seems to me a limited amount can be pre-programmed. Is this part of the genome?

    Can you shed some light on how the genomes are encoded?

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  8. Jessica MeyerJuly 3, 2015 at 3:50 PM

    Wayne Radinsky For the time they are being simulated, but the next step would be to run the experiments with the real robots. As the research is about the co-evolution of morphology and behavior, there are genomes responsible for certain behaviors that would adapt taking into account the shape the robots have, since different shapes require different behaviors to an optimized swarm.

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  9. Tanveer MinhasJuly 28, 2015 at 6:24 PM

    Wow madam

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  10. Simon GreenAugust 11, 2015 at 4:36 PM

    Jessica Meyer Just being nosy. Did you watch Humans on the tv last few weeks?

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  11. Jessica MeyerAugust 11, 2015 at 11:32 PM

    Simon Green I'm on episode 2 now..

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  12. Simon GreenAugust 11, 2015 at 11:39 PM

    Jessica Meyer lol.. won't spoil anything then. But it's all a touch ideological rather than tech/science really. Fun tho

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