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Evolutionary Robotics

Voxel-based soft robots (VSRs)
- Cooperative co-evolution of body and brain of VSRs
- Learning techniques for the controllers of VSRs: reinforcement learning
- Auto-assembly of VSRs
- Grammar-based generative encoding for developing (phenotypically plastic) modular robots
- Resolution-agnostic representation for evolution of closed-loop controllers of VSRs
- Social/cultural/imitation learning in VSRs
- Distributed world models for reconfigurable soft robots
- Impact on evolvability of the controller of the replacement of rigid parts with soft ones in modular robots
Real robots
- PushGP on mobile robots (Thymio-II): a machine-friendly representation for robotic agents controllers

Optimization of the policies of a few ruling agents in a multi-agent systems
Modeling and simulation of the academic publishing system for characterizing how incentives of different actors impact on the overall effectiveness

Two- or multi-stage quality-diversity evolution with a representation based on anchor solutions
Co-evolutionary map-elites