Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #02813
To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: rdraycott@CPL.co.uk
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 16:14:28 +0100
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: common body
someone wrote
> The common body eliminates a lot of variables while permiting a
>direct evaluation of different sets of behaviors. This would
>greatly accelerate behavioral development and robot evolution.
This is fundamentally flawed, enviromental requirements are supposed to
define the evolutionary development of a creature/BOT
with this suggestion you could be potentialy restricting the evolution of
BEAM tec down a dead end since as in life the configuration of the body
structure can prove to be a descisive evolutionary development (eg the Bat
compared to say a shrew)
yes it will speed up behavioral development BUT at the expense ot the
architectual and constructional evolution.
As yhe text said the merit In a common body approach is in terms of
judging comparitivly the actions of one against the other.
I get the impresion that while such an aproach is a worthy reasearch issue
it certainly cuts down the fun of the design and construction.
Rob D
AKA "Powerbuilder"
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