RHIOs: balancing capabilities and trust.
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Biomedical subjects
Matt Quinn
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Evolving controllers for a homogeneous system of physical robots: structured cooperation with minimal sensors.
We report on recent work in which we employed artificial evolution to design neural network controllers for small, homogeneous teams of mobile autonomous robots. The robots were evolved to perform a formation-movement task from random starting positions, equipped only with infrared sensors. The dual constraints of homogeneity and minimal sensors make this a non-trivial task. We describe the behaviour of a successful system in which robots adopt and maintain functionally distinct roles in order to achieve the task. We believe this to be the first example of the use of artificial evolution to design coordinated, cooperative behaviour for real robots.
Adaptation, Physiological↗
Reality management. Real-time data let hospital leaders base decisions on what's happening now, not last year.
Managing quality improvement, patient safety, workforce issues and strategic decision-making makes a lot more sense when you base your decisions on what's happening in the present, not the past. Real-time management is proactive and allows potential mistakes to be corrected before they can hurt patients.
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Evolutionary robotics: a new scientific tool for studying cognition.
We survey developments in artificial neural networks, in behavior-based robotics, and in evolutionary algorithms that set the stage for evolutionary robotics (ER) in the 1990s. We examine the motivations for using ER as a scientific tool for studying minimal models of cognition, with the advantage of being capable of generating integrated sensorimotor systems with minimal (or controllable) prejudices. These systems must act as a whole in close coupling with their environments, which is an essential aspect of real cognition that is often either bypassed or modeled poorly in other disciplines. We demonstrate with three example studies: homeostasis under visual inversion, the origins of learning, and the ontogenetic acquisition of entrainment.
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