Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/1839
Title: Evolutionary robotics techniques used to model information and control of visually guided braking
Authors: Kadıhasanoğlu, Didem
Beer, Randall D.
Bingham, Geoffrey P.
Keywords: Evolutionary robotics
visually guided braking
proportional rate control
constant tau-dot strategy
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Source: Kadihasanoglu, D., Beer, R. D., & Bingham, G. P. (2015). Evolutionary robotics techniques used to model information and control of visually guided braking. Adaptive Behavior, 23(3), 125-142.
Abstract: This paper utilizes evolutionary robotics techniques as a hypothesis generator to explore optical variables and control strategies that could be used to solve a driving-like braking task. Given such a task, humans exhibit two different braking behaviors: continuously regulated braking and impulsive braking. Based on an oft-used experimental task in human perception/action research, a series of evolutionary robotics simulations were developed to explore the space of possible braking strategies by examining how braking strategies change as the optical information is manipulated. Our results can be summarized as follows: (1) behaviors similar to human behavior were observed only when the constraints were selected correctly; (2) the optical variables and proportional rate yielded significantly better braking performance; (3) two different classes of impulsive braking behaviors were observed, including one not reported in previous studies: discrete impulsive braking and oscillatory impulsive braking; (4) the optical variable is used to initiate and terminate braking; (5) the evolved model agents use a proportional rate control strategy to regulate braking continuously. We argue that combining psychological experiments and evolutionary robotics simulations is a promising research methodology that is useful for testing existing hypotheses and generating new ones.
URI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1059712315576392
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/1839
ISSN: 1059-7123
Appears in Collections:Psikoloji Bölümü / Department of Psychology
Scopus İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / Scopus Indexed Publications Collection
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