Evolving Creatures in Virtual Worlds

12/04/01


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Table of Contents

Evolving Creatures in Virtual Worlds

Overview of talk

Biological evolution

Genetic algorithms

GAs: Terminology

GAs: Operators #1

GAs: Operators #2

The algorithm

Theory & applications

Simulated Physics

Evolving virtual creatures

Evolving controllers for predefined bodies

Evolving controllers for predefined bodies #2

Evolving morphology and controller simultaneously

The chromosome

Results

Limitations and Challenges

Summary

Acknowledgements & References

Further reading

Further reading (continued)

Author: Tim Taylor

Email: tim.taylor [at] ed.ac.uk

Home Page: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/timt/