Title : Combining Conflicting Environmental and Task Requirements in Evolutionary Robotics

Presenter Evert Haasdijk
Abstract The MONEE framework endows collective adaptive robotic systems with the ability to combine environment- and task-driven selection pressures: it enables distributed online algorithms for learning behaviours that ensure both survival and accomplishment of user-defined tasks. I will discuss the trade-off between these two requirements that evolution must establish when the task is detrimental to survival.