Abstract
“Functional change in structural continuity,” i.e., the opportunistic evolution of functions together with structures, is a major feature of biological evolution. However it has seldom struck a robotician's mind as very relevant for building robots, i.e., for design. This paper proposes starting points for investigating this unusual issue.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Braitenberg, V. 1984 Vehicles: experiments in synthetic psychology. MIT Press/Bradford Books.
Brooks, R.A. 1989 A robot that walks: emergent behaviors from a carefully evolved network. Neural Computations, no 1:2.
Brooks, R.A. 1991 Intelligence without Representation. Artificial Intelligence, vol. 47 (submitted in 1987).
Cliff, D., I. Harvey & P. Husbands 1996 Artificial evolution of visual control systems for robots. In Srinivisan & Venkatesh (eds), From living eyes to seeing machines. Oxford university press.
Connell, J.H. 1988 A behavior-based arm controller. AI MEMO 1025, MIT.
Dedieu, E. 1995 Contingent representation: toward a reconciliation between the functional and structural approaches to robot autonomy. PhD thesis (in French), INPG university, Grenoble, France.
Dellaert, F. & R.D. Beer 1996 A developmental model for the evolution of complete autonomous agents. SAB'96 conference “From Animals to Animats 4”, MIT Press/Bradford books.
Dennett, D.C. 1996 Darwin's dangerous idea. Simon & Schuster/Touchstone books.
Eldredge, N. 1996 Reinventing Darwin. Wiley.
Gould, S.J. 1977a Ontogeny and Phylogeny. Harvard University Press.
Gould, S.J. 1977b The problem of perfection. In Ever since Darwin, W.W. Norton.
Gould, S.J. 1980 The panda's thumb. In The panda's thumb, W.W. Norton.
Gould, S.J. 1991 Bully for brontosaurus. W.W. Norton.
Gould, S.J. 1993 Eight Little Piggies. W.W. Norton.
Harvey, I., P. Husbands, D. Cliff, A. Thompson & N. Jakobi 1997 Evolutionary robotics: the Sussex approach. Robotics and autonomous systems, in press.
Horswill, I.D. 1993 Specialization of perceptual processes. PhD thesis, MIT.
Jacob, F. 1981 Le jeu des possibles. Livre de poche.
Kodjabachian, J. & JA. Meyer, 1997 Evolution and development of neural networks controlling locomotion, gradient-following, and obstacle-avoidance in artificial insects. Submitted.
Laganey, A. 1979 Le sexe et l'innovation. Seuil, coll. Points, Paris.
Lund, H.H. & Parisi, D. 1996 Pre-adaptations in Populations of Neural Networks Evolving in a Changing Environment. Artificial Life 2:2.
Maes, P. 1992 Learning Behavior Networks from Experience. In F. Varela & P. Bourgine (eds), Toward a practice of autonomous systems: proc. of ECAL'91 MIT Press/Bradford books.
Miglino, O., S. Nolfi & D. Parisi 1996 Discontinuity in evolution: how different levels of organization imply pre-adaptation. In Belew & Mitchell (eds.), Plastic Individuals in Evolving Populations. SFI Series, Addison-Wesley, in press.
Mondada, F. 1996 Conception de structures neuronales pour le contrôle de robots mobiles autonomes. PhD thesis, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 1996.
Pierce, D. & B. Kuipers 1997 Map learning with uninterpreted sensors and effectors, AI Journal, accepted.
Saunders, P.T. 1989 L'évolution des formes biologiques, Intellectica 1993/1, no 16, initially in English in Leonardo, vol. 22, no 1, 1989.
Sims, K. 1994 Evolving 3D Morphology and Behavior by Competition. Artificial Life IV proceedings, R. Brooks & P. Maes (eds), MIT Press.
Steels, L. 1994 The artificial life roots of artificial intelligence. Atificial Life Journal, vol. 1,1. MIT Press.
Stengers, I. 1997 Cosmopolitiques 6, La Découverte, Paris.
Stewart, J. 1993 Au delà de l'inné et de l'acquis, Intellectica 1993/1, no 16.
Varela, F. 1989 Connaître: les sciences cognitives. Seuil, Paris.
Varela, F., E. Thompson et E. Rosch 1993 L'inscription corporelle de l'esprit. Seuil. Translation of The embodied mind.
Webb, B. & T. Smithers 1992 The connection between AI and biology in the study of behaviour. In F. Varela & P. Bourgine (eds), Toward a practice of autonomous systems: proc. of ECAL'91 MIT Press/Bradford books.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1998 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Dedieu, E., Lebeltel, O., Bessière, P. (1998). Wings were not designed to let animals fly. In: Hao, JK., Lutton, E., Ronald, E., Schoenauer, M., Snyers, D. (eds) Artificial Evolution. AE 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1363. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0026604
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0026604
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-64169-8
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-69698-8
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive