LIS releases RoboGen™ open source platform for evolutionary robotics
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The Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL has publicly released RoboGen™: an open source software and hardware platform for the co-evolution of robot bodies and brains.
RoboGen™ is a new software/hardware platform for evolutionary robotics designed with a primary focus on evolving robots that can be easily manufactured via 3D-printing and the use of a small set of low-cost, off-the-shelf electronic components. It features an evolution engine, and a physics simulation engine. Additionally it includes utilities for generating design files of body components to be used with a 3D-printer, and for compiling neural-network controllers to run on an Arduino microcontroller board.
RoboGen™ has been used by many master's students in EPFL's Bio-Inpired Artificial Intelligence class, and is now being made available to a worldwide community of teachers, students, researchers, and hobbyists.
For more information please visit www.robogen.org
RoboGen: Robot Generation through Artificial Evolution.
J. Auerbach, D. Aydin, A. Maesani, P. Kornatowski, T. Cieslewski, G. Heitz, P. Fernando, I. Loshchilov, L. Daler and D. Floreano.
Artificial Life 14: International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, New York, NY, USA, July 30-August 2, 2014. doi:10.7551/978-0-262-32621-6-ch022