Evolutionary Computation in Robotics
The EvoROBOT track focusses, as the name implies,
on evolutionary robotics: the application of evolutionary computation techniques
to automatically design the controllers and/or hardware of autonomous robots,
real or simulated. This is by nature a multi-faceted field that combines
approaches from other fields such as neuro-evolution, evolutionary design,
artificial life, robotics, et cetera.
We seek high quality contributions dealing with state-of-the-art research
in the area of evolutionary robotics.
Areas of Interest and Contributions
Topics include but are not limited to:
- Evolution of (neural) robot controllers
- Evolution of modular robot morphology
- Hardware/morphology and controller co-evolution
- Open-ended evolution in robotics
- Robotic evolutionary Artificial Life
- Evolutionary self-assembly and self-replication
- Evolution, development and learning
- Evolutionary and co-evolutionary approaches
Publication Details
Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of EvoStar, published as Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Submission Details
Submissions must be novel and original. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee and authors of accepted papers are required to address the reviewer's comments to produce a camera-ready version of their manuscripts. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and attend the conference to present their work.
The reviewing process will be double-blind and any information that may identify the authors should be removed from the initial submission. Please submit your contribution to EvoROBOT in Springer LNCS format. at http://myreview.csregistry.org/evoapps13. The page limit is 10 pages.
Important Dates
Submission deadline: 1 November 2012 Extended to 11 November 2012
Notification to authors: T.B.A.
Camera-ready deadline: 15 January 2013
EvoStar event: 3-5 April 2013
EvoROBOT track chairs
- Evert Haasdijk
VU University Amsterdam
e.haasdijk(at)vu.nl
- Gusz Eiben
VU University Amsterdam
gusz(at)cs.vu.nl
Programme Committee
- Nicolas Bredeche
- Jeff Clune
- Stéphane Doncieux
- Heiko Hamann
- Serge Kernbach
- Jean-Marc Montanier
- Jean-Baptiste Mouret
- Stefano Nolfi
- Claudio Rossi
- Sanem Sariel
- Florian Schlachter
- Thomas Schmickl
- Juergen Stradner
- Jon Timmis
- Andy Tyrrell
- Alan Winfield