Call for Papers: Paper Submission: January 31, 2010

Organisers

Patricia A. Vargas (Heriot-Watt University - Edinburgh)
Steffen Wischmann (EPFL - Lausanne)
Dario Floreano (EPFL - Lausanne)
Phil Husbands (University of Sussex - Brighton)

Website: http://lis.epfl.ch/specialsessions/CEC10/

Evolutionary Robotics (ER) aims to apply evolutionary computation techniques, inspired by darwinian selection, to automatically design the control and/or hardware of both real and simulated autonomous robots.

Having an intrinsic interdisciplinary character, ER is being employed towards the development of many fields of research, among which we can highlight neuroscience, cognitive science, evolutionary biology and robotics. Hence the objective of this special session is to assemble a set of high-quality original contributions that reflect and advance the state-of-the-art in the area of Evolutionary Robotics, with an emphasis on the cross-fertilization between ER and the aforementioned research areas, ranging from theoretical analysis to real-life applications.

Post Conference Publication:

Depending on the quality of the submissions, authors will be asked to contribute to a journal special issue on the topic of "Evolutionary Robotics".

Paper Submission:

Submissions should follow the guidance given on the IEEE CEC 2010 conference website: http://www.wcci2010.org. When submitting, please select as the main research topic the Special Session on “Evolutionary Robotics”.

ll submissions will be peer-reviewed with the same criteria used for other contributed papers. All accepted papers will be included and published in the conference proceedings.

Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):

• Evolution of robots which display minimal cognitive behaviour, learning, memory, spatial cognition, adaptation or homeostasis
• Evolution of neural controllers for robots, aimed at giving an insight to neuroscientists or advancing control structures
• Evolution of communication, cooperation and competition, using robots as a research platform
• Co-evolution and the evolution of collective behaviour.
• Evolution of morphology in close interaction with the environment, giving rise to self-reconfigurable, self-designing, self-healing and self-reproducing robots.
• Evolution of robot systems aimed at real-world applications as in aerial robotics, space exploration, industry, search and rescue, robot companions, entertainment and games.
• Evolution of controllers on board real robots or the real¬time evolution of robot hardware.
• Novel or improved algorithms for the evolution or robot systems.
• The use of evolution for the artistic exploration of robot design.

Important Dates:

Paper Submission: January 31, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2010
Camera-Ready Submission: May 2, 2010