no code implementations • 18 Apr 2018 • Mostafa Wahby, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Payam Zahadat, Sebastian Risi, Phil Ayres, Thomas Schmickl, Heiko Hamann
The evolved controllers augment the plants' natural light-finding and tissue-stiffening behaviors to avoid obstacles and grow desired shapes.
no code implementations • 25 Sep 2016 • Thomas Schmickl, Payam Zahadat, Heiko Hamann
We propose here the 'Wankelmut' task as an objective for an evolutionary approach that starts from scratch without pre-shaped controller software or any other informed approach that would force the behavior to be evolved in a desired way.
no code implementations • 25 Jul 2022 • Payam Zahadat, Ada Diaconescu
In many self-organising systems the ability to extract necessary resources from the external environment is essential to the system's growth and survival.