(2008-06-16T21:04:01Z) Jacob, Christian; Pilat, Marcin L.
In this paper, we evolve light following behaviours in preevolved
virtual creatures. The neural controllers of creatures
evolved for movement are augmented with simple visual
neurons and neural connections. The resulting neural
networks are trained for light following by an evolutionary
algorithm. We show that, through this process, we are able
to train the neural controllers to follow a light source. Many
of the evolved behaviours show stability and adaptiveness to
environmental perturbations of body orientation.