🚀 go-pugleaf

Walter Alden Tackett (tackett@ipld01.hac.com) wrote:
: In article <C0ICnz.o6@world.std.com> lains@world.std.com (Layne L Ainsworth) writes:
: >Has anyone tried to do this: 
: >
: >"Herds" of cheap (really cheap), reprogrammable robots, each loaded
: >with one set of the test "chromosome" population of a Genetic
: >Algorithm system. They could be evaluated to optimize indivdual
: >performance, or "hive" well-being.  Each "generation" would be the
: >same robots, with a new generation of "chromosomes" on board.

About 2 years ago I wrote a program on the Mac (Ok, Ok ... I've moved
on to UNIX :-)) which defined a (somewhat limited) syntax for 
robots which could be programmed to move around a landscape and
pick up energy, and perform a few simple actions based on their 
evaluation of the environment. 
After a while of running you would get stable populations which, if they
were too successful, would then starve. I stopped running this simualtion
after a while because I was fed up with tinkering with the Mac's 
memory model which required all sort of tricks to expand the simualtion
into what I felt would have been better settings.

I have recently thought about porting this to UNIX XWindows but if I 
ever get around to it, it will take quite some time to adapt all the
display routines.

----> Robert


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