TY  - CONF
A1  - Gros, Claudius
A1  - Martin, Laura
A1  - Sándor, Bulcsú
T1  - A self-organized one-neuron controller for artificial life on wheels
T2  - Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Artificial Life ECAL 2017,  Lyon, France, 4-8 September 2017
N2  - We study simulated animats in terms of wheeled robots with the most simple neural controller possible – a single neuron per actuator. The system is fully self-organized in the sense that the controlling neuron receives uniquely the actual angle of the wheel as an input. Non-trivial locomotion results in structured environments, with the robot determining autonomously the direction of movement (time-reversal symmetry is spontaneously broken). Our controller, which mimics the mechanism used to transmit power in steam locomotives, abstracts from the body plan of the animat, working without problems also in the presence of noise and for chains of individual two-wheeled cars. Being fully compliant our controller may be also used, in the spirit of morphological computation, as a basic unit for higher-level evolutionary algorithms.
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/55429
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-554295
SN  - 978-0-262-34633-7
N1  - This work is licensed to the public under a Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivatives 4.0 license (international): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
SP  - 184
EP  - 185
PB  - MIT Press
CY  - Cambridge
ER  -