Evolving Morphologies for Locomoting Micro-scale Robotic Agents

Matthew Uppington; Helmut Hauser; Sabine Hauert; Pierangelo Gobbo

doi:10.1109/MARSS55884.2022.9870459

Evolving Morphologies for Locomoting Micro-scale Robotic Agents

Matthew Uppington, Helmut Hauser, Sabine Hauert, Pierangelo Gobbo

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Abstract

Designing new locomotive mechanisms for micro-scale robotic systems could enable new approaches to tackling problems such as transporting cargos, or self-assembling in to pre-programmed architectures. Morphological factors often play a crucial role in determining the behaviour of microsystems, yet understanding how to design these aspects optimally is a challenge. This paper explores how the morphology of a multi-cellular micro-robotic agent can be optimised for reliable locomotion using artificial evolution in a stochastic simulator. Evolved morphologies are found to yield significantly better performance in terms of the reliability of the travel direction and the distance covered, compared to random morphologies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of MARSS 2022 - 5th International Conference on Manipulation, Automation, and Robotics at Small Scales
Editors	Sinan Haliyo, Mokrane Boudaoud, Eric Diller, Xinyu Liu, Yu Sun, Sergej Fatikow
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665459730
ISBN (Print)	9781665459747
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MARSS55884.2022.9870459
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 2 Sept 2022
Event	MARSS 2022 Conference - University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Duration: 25 Jul 2022 → 29 Jul 2022 Conference number: 55884X https://marss-conference.org/

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Name	Proceedings of MARSS 2022 - 5th International Conference on Manipulation, Automation, and Robotics at Small Scales
ISSN (Print)	2194-6426
ISSN (Electronic)	2194-6418

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Conference	MARSS 2022 Conference
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Toronto
Period	25/07/22 → 29/07/22
Internet address	https://marss-conference.org/

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This work is supported by the EPSRC Robotics and Autonomous Systems Centre for Doctoral Training (FARSCOPE) (UKRI Grant No. EP/S021795/1) (M.U).

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Uppington, M., Hauser, H., Hauert, S., & Gobbo, P. (2022). Evolving Morphologies for Locomoting Micro-scale Robotic Agents. In S. Haliyo, M. Boudaoud, E. Diller, X. Liu, Y. Sun, & S. Fatikow (Eds.), Proceedings of MARSS 2022 - 5th International Conference on Manipulation, Automation, and Robotics at Small Scales (Proceedings of MARSS 2022 - 5th International Conference on Manipulation, Automation, and Robotics at Small Scales). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1109/MARSS55884.2022.9870459

Uppington, Matthew ; Hauser, Helmut ; Hauert, Sabine et al. / Evolving Morphologies for Locomoting Micro-scale Robotic Agents. Proceedings of MARSS 2022 - 5th International Conference on Manipulation, Automation, and Robotics at Small Scales. editor / Sinan Haliyo ; Mokrane Boudaoud ; Eric Diller ; Xinyu Liu ; Yu Sun ; Sergej Fatikow. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022. (Proceedings of MARSS 2022 - 5th International Conference on Manipulation, Automation, and Robotics at Small Scales).

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Uppington, M, Hauser, H , Hauert, S & Gobbo, P 2022, Evolving Morphologies for Locomoting Micro-scale Robotic Agents. in S Haliyo, M Boudaoud, E Diller, X Liu, Y Sun & S Fatikow (eds), Proceedings of MARSS 2022 - 5th International Conference on Manipulation, Automation, and Robotics at Small Scales. Proceedings of MARSS 2022 - 5th International Conference on Manipulation, Automation, and Robotics at Small Scales, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), MARSS 2022 Conference, Toronto, Canada, 25/07/22. https://doi.org/10.1109/MARSS55884.2022.9870459

Evolving Morphologies for Locomoting Micro-scale Robotic Agents. / Uppington, Matthew; Hauser, Helmut ; Hauert, Sabine et al.
Proceedings of MARSS 2022 - 5th International Conference on Manipulation, Automation, and Robotics at Small Scales. ed. / Sinan Haliyo; Mokrane Boudaoud; Eric Diller; Xinyu Liu; Yu Sun; Sergej Fatikow. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022. (Proceedings of MARSS 2022 - 5th International Conference on Manipulation, Automation, and Robotics at Small Scales).

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Uppington M, Hauser H , Hauert S, Gobbo P. Evolving Morphologies for Locomoting Micro-scale Robotic Agents. In Haliyo S, Boudaoud M, Diller E, Liu X, Sun Y, Fatikow S, editors, Proceedings of MARSS 2022 - 5th International Conference on Manipulation, Automation, and Robotics at Small Scales. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). 2022. (Proceedings of MARSS 2022 - 5th International Conference on Manipulation, Automation, and Robotics at Small Scales). Epub 2022 Sept 2. doi: 10.1109/MARSS55884.2022.9870459

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