Individual, Social, and Evolutionary Adaptation in Collective Systems
Evert Haasdijk, Agoston Endre Eiben, Alan F. T. Winfield · 2013
This chapter focusses on adaptivity as a pivotal enabler of future robotic systems. It is the fundamental premise of our vision that future robots will have to be capable of autonomous adaptation, that is, able to change their control systems without human intervention. This vision has also been articulated by Nelson et al., cf. [Nelson et al. (2009)], who phrased it as follows: