Session:

WORLDS - Regeneration and Learning in Developmental Systems

Title:

Adaptive Fractal Gene Regulatory Networks for Robot Control

Authors:

Peter Bentley

Abstract:

Fractal proteins are an evolvable method of mapping genotype to phenotype through a developmental process, where genes are expressed into proteins comprised of subsets of the Mandelbrot Set. The resulting network of gene and protein interactions can be designed by evolution to produce specific patterns that in turn can be used to solve problems. In this paper, adaptive developmental programs, capable of developing different solutions in response to different signals from an environment, are investigated. Experiments show that such methods are highly effective in producing robot controllers that generate movements in response to sensor inputs.