Embodied artificial evolution: Artificial evolutionary systems in the 21st Century.
Embodied artificial evolution: Artificial evolutionary systems in the 21st Century.
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DOI：
10.1007/s12065-012-0071-x
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发表时间：
2012-12
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Haasdijk, Evert
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作者：
Eiben, A E;Kernbach, S;Haasdijk, Evert
进化是宇宙中无所不在的主要力量之一，已经被研究了大约两个世纪。最近的科学和技术发展使人们有可能从被动的理解过渡到积极利用进化过程。今天，这在进化计算中是可能的，人类实验者可以在数字空间中设计和操纵进化过程的所有组件。我们认为，在不久的将来，将有可能实现人工进化过程以外的这种想象空间，使他们的身体体现。换句话说，我们设想的是“事物的进化”，而不仅仅是数字对象的进化，这将导致一个新的人工进化（EAE）领域。本文的主要目的是提出一个统一的愿景，以帮助这个高潜力的研究领域的发展。为此，我们介绍了EAE的概念，讨论了一些例子和应用，并阐述了预期的好处以及这个发展中的领域将不得不解决的重大挑战。
Evolution is one of the major omnipresent powers in the universe that has been studied for about two centuries. Recent scientific and technical developments make it possible to make the transition from passively understanding to actively using evolutionary processes. Today this is possible in Evolutionary Computing, where human experimenters can design and manipulate all components of evolutionary processes in digital spaces. We argue that in the near future it will be possible to implement artificial evolutionary processes outside such imaginary spaces and make them physically embodied. In other words, we envision the “Evolution of Things”, rather than just the evolution of digital objects, leading to a new field of Embodied Artificial Evolution (EAE). The main objective of this paper is to present a unifying vision in order to aid the development of this high potential research area. To this end, we introduce the notion of EAE, discuss a few examples and applications, and elaborate on the expected benefits as well as the grand challenges this developing field will have to address.