Evolutionary Construction of Neural Controllers Using the Concept of Phenotypic Plasticity
Toshiyuki Kondo, Akio Ishiguro, Y. Uchikawa · Transactions of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers · 1998
Recently, Evolvable Hardware (EHW) has been attracting much concerns in Artificial Life community. EHW is the concept aiming to realize self construction abilities in hardware level, generally by combining Genetic Algorithms with FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array). Although EHW realizes high-speed processing, it still suffers from timeconsuming process to adapt itself to newly encountered environments particularly if it is applied to robotics. To overcome this drawback, in this paper we present a method that can realize on-line adaptation inspired from the concept called phenotypic plasticity.