Behavioral Persistence and Incomplete Functional Transfer of Co-evolved Communication in Evolutionary Robotics
This work evaluates the direct transfer of a co-evolved communication protocol from a 2D simulation to a 3D physical environment, without retraining the network weights.
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Key points
- Two e-puck-type robots, controlled by a GRU network with residual connection, were evaluated in a food-seeking task with social signaling.
- The sensory and motor translation layer required three corrections for stable physical operation, including the calibration of a hunger term based on a measurable asymmetry in the trained residual weights.
- An additional experiment incorporating explicit directional information in the social channel produced observable changes in the trajectory of the receiving agent and improvements in several specific cases.
- The results suggest that successful transfer of emergent communication may depend not only on preserving the signaling process itself, but also on preserving the ecological and navigational conditions under which the protocol evolved.
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- [1]Behavioral Persistence and Incomplete Functional Transfer of Co-evolved Communication in Evolutionary RoboticsHugging Face Daily Papers · Sep 29, 12:00 AM
This work evaluates the direct transfer of a co-evolved communication protocol from a 2D simulation to a 3D physical environment, without retraining the network weights.
Two e-puck-type robots, controlled by a GRU network with residual connection, were evaluated in a food-seeking task with social signaling.
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