MAP-Elites - Nature version (Sferes2 experiment)

MAP-Elites code for the experiments published in Cully et al. (2015), Nature.

Full reference: Cully, Antoine, Jeff Clune, Danesh Tarapore, and Jean-Baptiste Mouret. "Robots that can adapt like animals." Nature 521, no. 7553 (2015): 503-507.

• Author-generated [pdf]
• Nature version (paywall) [html / pdf]

See in particular the supplementary information.

Video (click on it to play):

Other parts of the experiments published in the paper:

• limbo: A lightweight framework for Bayesian and model-based optimisation of black-box functions
• Sferes2: A high-performance, multi-core, lightweight, generic C++98 framework for evolutionary computation.
• ITE: Intelligent Trial & Error algorithm

Authors

• Original author : Antoine Cully
• Other contributions: Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis

How to compile

Dependencies

• robdyn: Dynamic simulator
  • Make sure you have installed ODE by sources and using this trick.
  • Get the code: git clone https:/jbmouret/robdyn.git
  • Configure for compilation/installation: ./waf configure
  • Compile with ./waf
  • Install robdyn on your computer: sudo ./waf install
  • For more advanced options, look at robdyn's repo.
• Sferes2: A high-performance, multi-core, lightweight, generic C++98 framework for evolutionary computation.
  • Get the code: git clone https:/sferes2/sferes2
  • For more advanced options, look at Sferes2's repo.

Compiling

• Make sure you have all the dependencies installed/downloaded.
• Go to your sferes2 root directory
• Create a modules folder (if there's none) and cd to it: mkdir modules && cd modules
• Create a symbolic link to robdyn module (or you can copy it): ln -s your_robdyn_dir/sferes/robdyn
• Configure for compilation: ./waf configure --robdyn=robdyn_install_dir
  • You can add other options if you want, like: --cpp11=yes to force C++11 compilation
• Compile sferes2 with: ./waf
• Create an experiment folder (if there's none) and cd to it: mkdir exp && cd exp
• Clone map_elites_hexapod: git clone https:/resibots/map_elites_hexapod.git
• Go back to your sferes2 root directory
• Compile the experiment: ./waf --exp map_elites_hexapod

How to run

• Compile the experiment (as shown above)
• Run it (assuming you are on sferes2 root dir):
  • ./build/default/exp/map_elites_hexapod/hexa_duty_text
  • ./build/debug/exp/map_elites_hexapod/hexa_duty_text for the debug version

Funding

This work has been funded by the ANR Creadapt project (ANR-12-JS03-0009) and the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement number 637972 - ResiBots).

LICENSE

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