Evolution of springy organisms

• Thesis title in Czech: Evoluce pružinových organismů
• Thesis title in English: Evolution of springy organisms
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2007/2008
• Thesis type: Bachelor's thesis
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Department of Software and Computer Science Education (32-KSVI)
• Supervisor: RNDr. František Mráz, CSc.
• Author: hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept.
• Date of registration: 14.11.2007
• Date of assignment: 14.11.2007
• Date and time of defence: 08.09.2008 00:00
• Date of electronic submission: 08.09.2008
• Date of proceeded defence: 08.09.2008
• Opponents: Mgr. Martin Petříček

Guidelines

A springy organism is an extremely simplified model of moving organism. It consists of small spheres connected with periodically contracting springs. A 2D-version of such organisms was implemented in Sodarace project. The goal of the thesis is to evolve such organisms in 3D. The organisms will be evolved to fulfil several given tasks like light following and following prescribed way. The evolution will be realised by a genetic algorithm that will optimize the parameters of springs.

The module for springy organisms should be developed in the framework of the project ERO (Evolution of Robotic Organisms).

References

[1] David E. Goldberg, Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning, Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 1989.

[2] Peter Krcah with colleagues. Evolution of robotical organisms. http://ero.matfyz.cz/.

[3] Russell Smith. Open Dynamics Engine User Guide, February 2006. Available
at http://www.ode.org/.

[4] Sodarace project. Available at http://sodarace.net/.