Volume 2, Issue 2, September 2015, Pages 107 - 110
On the Effects of Epigenetic Programming on the Efficiency of Incremental Evolution of the Simulated Khepera Robot
Authors
Yasuto Nishiwaki, Naoki Mukosaka, Ivan Tanev, Katsunori Shimohara
Corresponding Author
Yasuto Nishiwaki
Available Online 1 September 2015.
- DOI
- 10.2991/jrnal.2015.2.2.9How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Epigenetic Programming, Genetic Programming, Epigenesis, Histone
- Abstract
We present the results of our work on epigenetic programming (EP) and its application to navigation of mobile cleaning robot. We verify the effect of genetic switches and the feasibility of incorporating histones. The results show individuals applying Lamarckian EP have better quality and evolve faster than those in canonical genetic programming. Such an improved computational effort of evolution, however, is achieved at the cost of somehow decreased computational performance due to the additional overhead of manipulating the genetic switches. Our work could be seen as a verification of the accelerating effect of histones on adaptation and evolution in nature.
- Copyright
- © 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - JOUR AU - Yasuto Nishiwaki AU - Naoki Mukosaka AU - Ivan Tanev AU - Katsunori Shimohara PY - 2015 DA - 2015/09/01 TI - On the Effects of Epigenetic Programming on the Efficiency of Incremental Evolution of the Simulated Khepera Robot JO - Journal of Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life SP - 107 EP - 110 VL - 2 IS - 2 SN - 2352-6386 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.2015.2.2.9 DO - 10.2991/jrnal.2015.2.2.9 ID - Nishiwaki2015 ER -