The Effects of the Environment and Linear Actuators on Robot Morphologies
The field of evolutionary robotics uses principles of natural evolution to design robots. In this paper, we study the effect of adding a new module inspired by the skeletal muscle to the existing RoboGen framework: the linear actuator. Additionally, we investigate how robots evolved in a plain environment differ from robots evolved in a rough environment. We consider the task of directed locomotion for comparing evolved robot morphologies. The results show that the addition of the linear actuator does not have a significant impact on the performance and morphologies of robots evolved in a plain environment. However, we find significant differences in the morphologies of robots evolved in a plain environment and robots evolved in a rough environment. We find that more complex behavior and morphologies emerge when we change the terrain of the environment.
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