Evolution In Materio : A Real-Time Robot Controller
in Liquid Crystal
S. Harding, and J. Miller. Proceedings of the 2005 NASA/DoD Conference on
Evolvable Hardware, page 229--238. Washington, DC, USA, IEEE Press, (29 June-1 July 2005)
Abstract
Although intrinsic evolution has been shown to be
capable of exploiting the physical properties of
materials to solve problems, most researchers have
chosen to limit themselves to using standard electronic
components. However, it has been previously argued that
because such components are human designed and
intentionally have predictable responses, they may not
be the most suitable medium to use when trying to get a
naturally inspired search technique to solve a problem.
Indeed allowing computer controlled evolution (CCE) to
manipulate novel physical media can allow much greater
scope for the discovery of unconventional solutions.
Last year the authors demonstrated, for the first time,
that CCE could manipulate liquid crystal to perform
signal processing tasks (i.e frequency discrimination).
In this paper we show that CCE can use liquid crystal
to solve the much harder problem of controlling a robot
in real time to navigate in an environment to reach an
obstructed destination point.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 harding:2005:EH
%A Harding, Simon
%A Miller, Julian F.
%B Proceedings of the 2005 NASA/DoD Conference on
Evolvable Hardware
%C Washington, DC, USA
%D 2005
%E Lohn, Jason
%E Gwaltney, David
%E Hornby, Gregory
%E Zebulum, Ricardo
%E Keymeulen, Didier
%E Stoica, Adrian
%I IEEE Press
%K EHW algorithms, genetic programming,
%P 229--238
%T Evolution In Materio : A Real-Time Robot Controller
in Liquid Crystal
%U http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/EH.2005.22
%X Although intrinsic evolution has been shown to be
capable of exploiting the physical properties of
materials to solve problems, most researchers have
chosen to limit themselves to using standard electronic
components. However, it has been previously argued that
because such components are human designed and
intentionally have predictable responses, they may not
be the most suitable medium to use when trying to get a
naturally inspired search technique to solve a problem.
Indeed allowing computer controlled evolution (CCE) to
manipulate novel physical media can allow much greater
scope for the discovery of unconventional solutions.
Last year the authors demonstrated, for the first time,
that CCE could manipulate liquid crystal to perform
signal processing tasks (i.e frequency discrimination).
In this paper we show that CCE can use liquid crystal
to solve the much harder problem of controlling a robot
in real time to navigate in an environment to reach an
obstructed destination point.
%@ 0-7695-2399-4
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abstract = {Although intrinsic evolution has been shown to be
capable of exploiting the physical properties of
materials to solve problems, most researchers have
chosen to limit themselves to using standard electronic
components. However, it has been previously argued that
because such components are human designed and
intentionally have predictable responses, they may not
be the most suitable medium to use when trying to get a
naturally inspired search technique to solve a problem.
Indeed allowing computer controlled evolution (CCE) to
manipulate novel physical media can allow much greater
scope for the discovery of unconventional solutions.
Last year the authors demonstrated, for the first time,
that CCE could manipulate liquid crystal to perform
signal processing tasks (i.e frequency discrimination).
In this paper we show that CCE can use liquid crystal
to solve the much harder problem of controlling a robot
in real time to navigate in an environment to reach an
obstructed destination point.},
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notes = {EH2005 IEEE Computer Society Order Number P2399},
organisation = {NASA, DoD},
pages = {229--238},
publisher = {IEEE Press},
publisher_address = {IEEE Service Center 445 Hoes Lane Asia P.O. Box
1331 Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331},
timestamp = {2008-06-19T17:40:58.000+0200},
title = {Evolution In Materio : {A} Real-Time Robot Controller
in Liquid Crystal},
url = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/EH.2005.22},
year = 2005
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