Morphological Evolution: Bioinspired Methods for Analyzing Bioinspired Robots.

ABSTRACT: To fully understand the evolution of complex morphologies, analyses cannot stop at selection: It is essential to investigate the roles and interactions of multiple processes that drive evolutionary outcomes. The challenges of undertaking such analyses have affected both evolutionary biologists and evolutionary roboticists, with their common interests in complex morphologies. In this paper, we present analytical techniques from evolutionary biology, selection gradient analysis and morphospace walks, and we demonstrate their applicability to robot morphologies in analyses of three evolutionary mechanisms: randomness (genetic mutation), development (an explicitly implemented genotype-to-phenotype map), and selection. In particular, we applied these analytical techniques to evolv

SUBMITTER: Aaron E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8795882 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature