Evolving neural controllers for temporally dependent behaviors in autonomous robots

Abstract

The objective of this work is to study neural control architectures for autonomous robots that explicitly handle time in tasks that require reasoning with the temporal component. The controllers are generated and trained through the methodology of evolutionary robotics. In this study, the reasoning processes are circumscribed to data provided by light sensors, as a first step in the process of evaluating the requirements of control structures that can be extended to the processing of visual information provided by cameras.