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
On October 26, Miguel Duarte, who recently obtained his PhD from ISCTE-IUL, presented part of his thesis work on “Bringing Artificial Intelligence for Swarm Robotics Systems to the Real World” at the Fraunhofer Challenge 2016. Among a total of 70 submissions,… Continue Reading
A number of interesting papers have recently been published by members of BioMachines Lab in international journals: F. Silva, L. Correia, and A. L. Christensen (2016), “Evolutionary Robotics”, Scholarpedia, 11(7):33333. M. Duarte, V. Costa, J. Gomes, T. Rodrigues, F. Silva,… Continue Reading
On the 29th of April 2016, BioMachines Lab’s student Miguel Duarte successfully defended his PhD thesis at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL), entitled “Engineering Evolutionary Control for Real-world Robotic Systems”. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Anders Christensen and Prof. Sancho Oliveira, and Miguel’s thesis… Continue Reading