Unleashing the Potential of Evolutionary Swarm Robotics in the Real World

摘要

We provide a summary of our real-world experiments with a swarm of aquatic surface robots with evolved control. Robotic control was synthesized in simulation, using of- fline evolutionary robotics techniques, and then successfully transferred to a real swarm. Our study presents one of the first demonstrations of evolved control in a swarm robotics system outside of controlled laboratory conditions. Original publication: M. Duarte, V. Costa, J. Gomes, T. Rodrigues, F. Silva, S. M. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen. Evolution of collective behaviors for a real swarm of aquatic surface robots. PLoS ONE, 11(3):e0151834, 2016.