Self-Organized Construction by Minimal Surprise
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02980v1
- Date: Sun, 5 May 2024 15:59:22 GMT
- Title: Self-Organized Construction by Minimal Surprise
- Authors: Tanja Katharina Kaiser, Heiko Hamann,
- Abstract summary: Simulated robots push blocks in a 2D torus grid world.
In either way, we evolve robot behaviors that move blocks to structure their environment and make it more predictable.
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- License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
- Abstract: For the robots to achieve a desired behavior, we can program them directly, train them, or give them an innate driver that makes the robots themselves desire the targeted behavior. With the minimal surprise approach, we implant in our robots the desire to make their world predictable. Here, we apply minimal surprise to collective construction. Simulated robots push blocks in a 2D torus grid world. In two variants of our experiment we either allow for emergent behaviors or predefine the expected environment of the robots. In either way, we evolve robot behaviors that move blocks to structure their environment and make it more predictable. The resulting controllers can be applied in collective construction by robots.
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