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Genetic Representation of Adaptive Neural Controllers

The manual design of adaptive controllers for robotic systems that face unpredictable environmental changes is often challenging. There is thus a growing interest in the development of automatic design tools to assist control engineers. One of the most com ...

EPFL2011

Beyond Graphs: A New Synthesis

Dario Floreano, Daniel Marbach, Claudio Mattiussi, Peter Dürr

Artiﬁcial neural networks, electronic circuits, and gene networks are some examples of systems that can be modeled as networks, that is, as collections of interconnected nodes. In this paper we introduce the concept of terminal graph (t-graph for short), w ...

2011

Genetic representation and evolvability of modular neural controllers

Dario Floreano, Claudio Mattiussi, Peter Dürr

The manual design of con- trol systems for robotic devices can be challenging. Methods for the automatic synthesis of control systems, such as the evolution of artificial neural networks, are thus widely used in the robotics community. However, in many rob ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2010

The Age of Analog Networks

Dario Floreano, Daniel Marbach, Claudio Mattiussi, Peter Dürr

A large class of systems of biological and technological relevance can be described as analog networks, that is, collections of dynamical devices interconnected by links of varying strength. Some examples of analog networks are genetic regulatory networks, ...

2008

Evolvability of Neuromodulated Learning for Robots

Dario Floreano, Claudio Mattiussi, Peter Dürr, Andrea Soltoggio

Neuromodulation is thought to be one of the underlying principles of learning and memory in biological neural networks. Recent experiments have shown that neuroevolutionary methods benefit from neuromodulation in simple grid-world problems. In this paper w ...

IEEE Computer Society2008

Evolutionary Advantages of Neuromodulated Plasticity in Dynamic, Reward- based Scenarios

Dario Floreano, Claudio Mattiussi, Peter Dürr, Andrea Soltoggio

memory in biological neural networks. Similarly, artificial neural networks could benefit from modulatory dynamics when facing certain types of learning problem. Here we test this hypothesis by introducing modulatory neurons to enhance or dampen neural pla ...

MIT Press2008

Neuroevolution: from architectures to learning

Dario Floreano, Claudio Mattiussi, Peter Dürr

Artificial neural networks are applied to many real-world problems, ranging from pattern classification to robot control. In order to design a neural network for a particular task, the choice of an architecture (including the choice of a neuron model), and ...

2008

Center of Mass Encoding: A self-adaptive representation with adjustable redundancy for real-valued parameters

Dario Floreano, Claudio Mattiussi, Peter Dürr

In this paper we describe a new class of representations for real-valued parameters called Center of Mass Encoding (CoME). CoME is based on variable length strings, it is self-adaptive, and it permits the choice of the degree of redundancy of the genotype- ...

ACM Press2007

Evolving Neuromodulatory Topologies for Reinforcement Learning-like Problems

Dario Floreano, Claudio Mattiussi, Peter Dürr, Andrea Soltoggio

Environments with varying reward contingencies constitute a challenge to many living creatures. In such conditions, animals capable of adaptation and learning derive an advantage. Recent studies suggest that neuromodulatory dynamics are a key factor in reg ...

IEEE Press2007

Neuroevolution with Analog Genetic Encoding

Dario Floreano, Claudio Mattiussi, Peter Dürr

The evolution of artificial neural networks (ANNs) is often used to tackle difficult control problems. There are different approaches to the encoding of neural networks in artificial genomes. Analog Genetic Encoding (AGE) is a new implicit method derived f ...

2006