inria-00145172, version 1
Robustness in the long run: Auto-teaching vs Anticipation in Evolutionary Robotics
Nicolas Godzik a, 1Marc Schoenauer
a, 1Michèle Sebag
b, 1
Parallel Problem Solving from Nature 3242 (2004) 932-941
Résumé : In Evolutionary Robotics, auto-teaching networks, neural networks that modify their own weights during the life-time of the robot, have been shown to be powerful architectures to develop adaptive controllers. Unfortunately, when run for a longer period of time than that used during evolution, the long-term behavior of such networks can become unpredictable. This paper gives an example of such dangerous behavior, and proposes an alternative solution based on anticipation: as in auto-teaching networks, a secondary network is evolved, but its outputs try to predict the next state of the robot sensors. The weights of the action network are adjusted using some back-propagation procedure based on the errors made by the anticipatory network. First results -- in simulated environments -- show a tremendous increase in robustness of the long-term behavior of the controller.
- a – INRIA
- b – CNRS
- 1 : TAO (INRIA Futurs)
- INRIA – CNRS : UMR8623 – Université Paris XI - Paris Sud
- Domaine : Informatique/Intelligence artificielle
- Mots-clés : Evolutionary Robotics – robustness
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- Soumis le : Mercredi 9 Mai 2007, 06:41:01
- Dernière modification le : Mercredi 9 Mai 2007, 11:44:50






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