Sanchez, Stéphane and Cussat-Blanc, Sylvain (2014) Gene regulated car driving: using a gene regulatory network to drive a virtual car. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, vol. 15 (n° 4). pp. 477-511.

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Abstract

This paper presents a virtual racing car controller based on an artificial gene regulatory network. Usually used to control virtual cells in developmental models, recent works showed that gene regulatory networks are also capable to control various kinds of agents such as foraging agents, pole cart, swarm robots, etc. This paper details how a gene regulatory network is evolved to drive on any track through a three-stages incremental evolution. To do so, the inputs and outputs of the network are directly mapped to the car sensors and actuators. To make this controller a competitive racer, we have distorted its inputs online to make it drive faster and to avoid opponents. Another interesting property emerges from this approach: the regulatory network is naturally resistant to noise. To evaluate this approach, we participated in the 2013 simulated racing car competition against eight other evolutionary and scripted approaches. After its first participation, this approach finished in third place in the competition.

Item Type: Article
Date: 2014
Refereed: Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords: Gene regulatory network - Virtual car racing - Machine learning - Incremental evolution
Subjects: H- INFORMATIQUE
Divisions: Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse
Site: UT1
Date Deposited: 22 Feb 2019 14:18
Last Modified: 02 Apr 2021 15:59
URI: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/29680
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