Abstract:
Evolutionary robotics (ER) has emerged as a fast growing field in the
last two decades and has earned the attention of a number of researchers. Principles
of biological evolution are applied in the form of evolutionary techniques for solving
the complicated problems in the areas of robotic design and control. The diversity
and the intensity of this growing field is presented in this paper through the contributions
made by several researchers in the categories of robot controller design, robot
body design, co-evolution of body and brain and in transforming the evolved robots in
physical reality. The paper discusses some of the recent achievements in each of these
fields along with some expected applications which are likely to motivate the future
research. For the quick reference of the readers, a digest of all the works is presented
in the paper, spanning the years and the areas of the research contributions
