On the 4th of June 2019, BioMachines Lab’s student Rita Prada Ramos successfully defended her MSc thesis at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), entitled “Evolving flocking in embodied agents based on local and global application of Reynolds’ rules”. The thesis was supervised by… Continue Reading
On the 26th of July 2018, BioMachines Lab’s student Vasco Costa successfully defended his MSc thesis at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL), entitled “Synthesis of formation control for an aquatic swarm robotics system”. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Anders Christensen… Continue Reading
Our paper titled “Dynamic Team Heterogeneity in Cooperative Coevolutionary Algorithms” by J. Gomes, P. Mariano, and A. L. Christensen has been published online in the prestigious IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation journal (impact factor: 10.629). In the paper, we show how… Continue Reading
Our paper titled “Mergeable Nervous Systems for Robots” on robots that are able to physically connect to one another, merge their control systems, and become new robots of different shapes and sizes, has finally been published in Nature Communications. Several… Continue Reading
“Evolutionary online behaviour learning and adaptation in real robots” by Silva et al. has been published in Royal Society Open Science. In the paper, we demonstrate for the first time the adaptive capabilities of online evolution in real robotic hardware,… Continue Reading
Our paper Fernando Silva et al. (2016) “Open Issues in Evolutionary Robotics”, Evolutionary Computation 24(2):205-236 has been selected to be on Computing Reviews’ 21st Annual Best of Computing Notable Books and Articles list. The list consists of item nominations from reviewers,… Continue Reading
On June 29, 2017, Fernando Silva successfully defended his PhD thesis and received the highest distinction for his work on “Evolutionary Online Behaviour Learning and Adaptation in Robotic Systems”. The jury was composed of Prof. Nuno Lau from the University… Continue Reading
Our paper on the EvoRBC approach: “Evolution of Repertoire-based Control for Robots with Complex Locomotor Systems” has now been published online in top-ranking AI journal IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. According to the most recent Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports… Continue Reading
On May 26, Jorge Gomes successfully defended his thesis “Novel Approaches to Cooperative Coevolution of Heterogeneous Multiagent Systems” and was awarded the PhD degree with the highest distinction. The jury was composed of Prof. Gusz Eiben from UV Amsterdam, Prof.… Continue Reading
Miguel Duarte won the best PhD thesis award by the Sociedade Portuguesa de Robótica. The award ceremony was part of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC 2017), which took place in Coimbra, Portugal from April 26-28,… Continue Reading