Fusing novelty and surprise for evolving robot morphologies

Main Authors: Daniele Gravina, Antonios Liapis, Georgios N. Yannakakis
Format: Proceeding
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: , 2018
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language eng
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author Daniele Gravina
Antonios Liapis
Georgios N. Yannakakis
title Fusing novelty and surprise for evolving robot morphologies
publishDate 2018
topic Surprise search
Evolutionary robotics
novelty search
divergent search
deception
evolutionary robotics
soft robots
CPPN
artificial life
url https://zenodo.org/record/1690029
contents Traditional evolutionary algorithms tend to converge to a single good solution, which can limit their chance of discovering more diverse and creative outcomes. Divergent search, on the other hand, aims to counter convergence to local optima by avoiding selection pressure towards the objective. Forms of divergent search such as novelty or surprise search have proven to be beneficial for both the efficiency and the variety of the solutions obtained in deceptive tasks. Importantly for this paper, early results in maze navigation have shown that combining novelty and surprise search yields an even more effective search strategy due to their orthogonal nature. Motivated by the largely unexplored potential of coupling novelty and surprise as a search strategy, in this paper we investigate how fusing the two can affect the evolution of soft robot morphologies. We test the capacity of the combined search strategy against objective, novelty, and surprise search, by comparing their efficiency and robustness, and the variety of robots they evolve. Our key results demonstrate that novelty-surprise search is generally more efficient and robust across eight different resolutions. Further, surprise search explores the space of robot morphologies more broadly than any other algorithm examined.
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