[ec2m] Physics engines

[Jens Ziegler]

Hi,

a very nice example for an open source project incorporating distrubuted 
evolution of control programs for walking robots is the recently finished 
student project SIGEL. Take a look at the projects homepage at 

http://sigel.sourceforge.net 

or view the detailed project at sourceforce itself 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sigel/

We used DynaMechs as the physical engine (it works fine, but has some 
limitations) and Genetic Programming to evolve programs on a cluster of 
workstations/PCs with PVM that made robots with arbitrary morphology walk 
(or, better, move)
The real-time simulation of the robot and the control program can be viewed 
with an Open-GL visualization. You can download binaries or the source code. 
On the WWW-pages you can find mpeg-movies showing the results of some of our 
evolutionary experiments.

The project is open source, so everyone is welcome to join it.

Hope to have made you curious about it...

Jens Ziegler
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University of Dortmund, Department of Computer Science

Phone..: +49-231-9700-978
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