Evolutionary Robotics Related Publications
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NEW: A.L. Nelson, E. Grant, “Aggregate selection in evolutionary robotics,” in Mobile Robots: The Evolutionary Approach, eds. N. Nedjah, L. Coelho, L. Mourelle, Studies in Computational Intelligence , Vol. 50, pp. 63-88, Springer, 2007. (link  to  publisher web page)

NEW: A.L. Nelson, B.L. Bailey, “What can life on earth tell us about artificial life and the creation of autonomous agents?” Theoria et Historia Scientiarum, Special issue of on Artificial Life, in press, vol. 8, no. 1, The Nicolaus Copernicus University Press, 2007.

NEW: A.L. Nelson, E. Grant, “Using direct competition to select for competent controllers in evolutionary robotics,” Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 54, no. 10, pp. 840-857, Oct. 2006.

NEW: A.L. Nelson, E. Grant, “Developmental analysis in evolutionary robotics,” in Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE SMC Mountain Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems (SMCals’06), July 2006, pp. 201-206.

A.L. Nelson, E. Grant, G.J. Barlow, M. White, “Evolution of Autonomous Robot Behaviors Using Relative Competitive Fitness,” IEEE International Conference, Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems: KIMAS'03: Modeling, Exploration, and Engineering Systems, Boston MA, Oct 1-3, 2003, pp. 145-150.

A.L. Nelson, E. Grant, T.C. Henderson, “Evolution of neural controllers for competitive game playing with teams of mobile robots,” Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 135-150, Mar 2004.

Andrew L Nelson, “Competitive Relative Performance and Fitness Selection for Evolutionary Robotics,” Doctoral Dissertation, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, May 2000.

A.L. Nelson, E. Grant, G.J. Barlow, T.C. Henderson, “A Colony of Robots Using Vision Sensing and Evolved Neural Controllers”, 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference On Intelligent Robots And Systems (IROS03), Las Vegas NV, vol. 3, Oct. 27-31, 2003, pp 2273-2278.

A.L. Nelson, E. Grant, J.M. Galeotti, S. Rhody, “Maze Exploration Behaviors Using an Integrated Evolutionary Robotics Environment,”  Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems,  vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 159-173, Mar 2004

Gastelum, D,  Jones, T.,  Agarwal, A.,  Kothari, J.,  Bhat, S., Lee, H.K., Grant, E., Nelson, A., Rubin, S., and Lee, G.K., "The Development of a Testbed for Evolutionary Learning Algorithms for Mobile Robotic Colonies", Proc. of the 2004 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems - Western Multiconference, San Diego, pp. 212-217, 2004.

A.L. Nelson, E. Grant, G. Lee, “Developing evolutionary neural controllers for teams of mobile robots playing a complex game,” IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, (IRI 2003), Las Vegas NV, Oct 27-29, 2003, pp. 212 – 218.

A.L. Nelson, E. Grant, G. Lee, “Using Genetic Algorithms to Capture Behavioral Traits Exhibited by Knowledge Based Robot Agents,” in Proceedings of the ISCA 15th International Conference: Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE-2002), San Diego CA, Nov. 7-9, 2002, pp. 92-97, ISBN: 1-880843-45-5.

J. Galeotti, S. Rhody, A.L. Nelson, E. Grant, G. Lee, “EvBots – The Design and Construction Of A Mobile Robot Colony for Conducting Evolutionary Robotic Experiments,” in Proceedings of the ISCA 15th International Conference: Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE-2002), San Diego CA, Nov. 7-9, 2002, pp. 86-91, ISBN: 1-880843-45-5.

A.L. Nelson, E. Grant, T.C. Henderson, “Competitive relative performance evaluation of neural controllers for competitive game playing with teams of real mobile robots,” Measuring the Performance and Intelligence of Systems: Proceedings of the 2002 PerMIS Workshop, NIST Special Publication 990, Gaithersburg MD, Aug. 13-15, 2002, pp. 43-50.