Berends, Sanne (2022) Equipping Braitenberg Vehicles with Lights and its Effect on the Evolutionary Processes of Braitenberg’s Experiment Six. Bachelor's Thesis, Artificial Intelligence.
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Abstract
Valentino Braitenberg's experiment six is a thought experiment where a simplified Darwinian evolution is established with a population of simple two-wheeled vehicles that respond to stimuli (light). The evolution is established by placing these so-called Braitenberg Vehicles in an environment with edges, where a vehicle that reaches an edge is replaced by a mutated version of one of the other agents in the environment. Recent research simulated this experiment and observed the evolutionary processes of the population. This study examines the effect of the addition of vehicles equipped with lights on the evolutionary processes. These lights allow the vehicles to be attracted and repelled by each other. This paper sets forth three experiments, each introducing this new type of vehicle to the environment in a different way. The results indicate that the addition of these vehicles results in more varied populations. In addition, behavioral patterns were observed: the emergence of non-moving `trains' of vehicles, and of static equilibria. These results suggest that the behavior of these new vehicles is less dependent on their environmental set-up than that of regular vehicles.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor's Thesis) |
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| Supervisor name: | Weerd, H.A. de |
| Degree programme: | Artificial Intelligence |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Aug 2022 10:35 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Aug 2022 10:35 |
| URI: | https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/28281 |
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