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Title:

Autonomous Design Of Modular Intelligent Systems

Authors:

Pavel Nahodil, Jaroslav Vitku

Published in:

 

(2013).ECMS 2013 Proceedings edited by: W. Rekdalsbakken, R. T. Bye, H. Zhang  European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2013

 

ISBN: 978-0-9564944-6-7

 

27th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation,

Aalesund, Norway, May 27th – 30th, 2013

 

Citation format:

Pavel Nahodil, Jaroslav Vitku (2013). Autonomous Design Of Modular Intelligent Systems, ECMS 2013 Proceedings edited by: W. Rekdalsbakken, R. T. Bye, H. Zhang, European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2013-0379

 

DOI:

http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2013-0379

Abstract:

We propose our original system capable of autonomous design of general-purpose complex modular hybrid systems. The resulting hybrid systems will be able to employ various techniques of learning, decisionmaking, prediction etc. Presented topic is from Artificial Life domain, but contributes also to fields such as Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Computational Neuroscience, Ethology, Cybernetics and potentially into many other aspects of research. The autonomous design is implemented as an optimization of system topology with respect to given problem. The principle of design is based on modified neuro-evolution and can be compared to modular neural networks. One of the main requirements is standardization of communication between very different subsystems. Here, each subsystem - module implements arbitrary algorithm and is treated as a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output subsystem. First, the design of simulator used is described, then the basic principle of hybrid networks is explained with it benefits and drawbacks. Finally, simple example is mentioned.

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