On the origin of environments by means of natural selection. (Articles).

From: AI Magazine | Date: December 22, 2001| Author: Sipper, Moshe | Copyright information

The field of adaptive robotics involves simulations and real-world implementations of robots that adapt to their environments. In this article, I introduce adaptive environmentics--the flip side of adaptive robotics--in which the environment adapts to the robot. To illustrate the approach, I offer three simple experiments in which a genetic algorithm is used to shape an environment for a simulated KHEPERA robot. I then discuss at length the potential of adaptive environmentics, also delinea...

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