Approaches.

Evolutionary Robotics

Tomiris Kalkabekova
 Grasping an object by

Jamming gripper Shadow Hand

Contoller’s point of view

Sensory apparatus (3D,2D)
Morphology
 Why is it called as Evolutionary
Robotics and what is it?

Solving hard problems in optimization

Modelling
The idea of using:
• Evolutionary principles
• Evolutionary Computing Design
 ER is at the crossroads between engineering
science and biology

Using robots as evolving entities opens the way to a novel modus

operandi wherein hypotheses can be tested experimentally
Evolutionary algorithm
 Artificial Neural Network

Why?
Achieve dif. types of
functionality

Test ideas from

biology (neural
mechanism)

Supervised + unsupervised learning

 Training or How do they work?

you feed the output

of your algorithm No instructions on
into the system which output right
a system needs to do is to or not
work out the steps or
process needed to reach No human guiding
from the input to the
output.
The goal here is to evolve robots with creative problem-solving
capabilities.
 Limitations…
Real robots in real time. a very long time
(real life)

evolve robots in simulation have the best ones

You don’t model
everything that’s
happening in the real
world.
There is the
complexity of the task
it outperforms is pretty
limited.