Recent trends in robot learning and evolution for swarm robotics

[摘要] Swarm robotics is a promising approach to control large groups of robots. However, designing the individual behavior of the robots so that a desired collective behavior emerges is still a major challenge. In recent years, many advances in the automatic design of control software for robot swarms have been made, thus making automatic design a promising tool to address this challenge. In this article, I highlight and discuss recent advances and trends in offline robot evolution, embodied evolution, and offline robot learning for swarm robotics. For each approach, I describe recent design methods of interest, and commonly encountered challenges. In addition to the review, I provide a perspective on recent trends and discuss how they might influence future research to help address the remaining challenges of designing robot swarms.

[发布日期] 2023-04-24

[关键词] swarm robotics;robot evolution;robot learning;automatic design;neuro-evolution;automatic modular design;embodied evolution;imitation learning