ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION - A NEW PATH FOR ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE

Recently there have been a number of proposals for the use of artifici al evolution as a radically new approach to the development of control systems for autonomous robots. This paper explains the artificial evo lution approach, using work at Sussex to illustrate it. The paper revo lves around a casts study on the concurrent evolution of control netwo rks and visual sensor morphologies fdr a mobile robot. Wider intellect ual issues surrounding the work are discussed, as is the: use of more abstract evolutionary simulations us a new potentially useful tool in theoretical biology. (C) 1997 Academic Press.