Accessible Survey of Evolutionary Robotics and Potential Future Research Directions

TL;DR

This survey comprehensively reviews recent developments in Evolutionary Robotics, highlighting its potential to address complex robotic design and control challenges and outlining future research directions.

Contribution

It systematically organizes recent evolutionary robotics research, providing a categorized overview and discussing future potential and challenges in the field.

Findings

Evolutionary Robotics is rapidly growing with diverse applications.

Recent research shows promising results in robotic design and control.

Future directions include addressing current challenges with evolutionary methods.

Abstract

This paper reviews various Evolutionary Approaches applied to the domain of Evolutionary Robotics with the intention of resolving difficult problems in the areas of robotic design and control. Evolutionary Robotics is a fast-growing field that has attracted substantial research attention in recent years. The paper thus collates recent findings along with some anticipated applications. The reviewed literature is organized systematically to give a categorical overview of recent developments and is presented in tabulated form for quick reference. We discuss the outstanding potentialities and challenges that exist in robotics from an ER perspective, with the belief that these will be have the capacity to be addressed in the near future via the application of evolutionary approaches. The primary objective of this study is to explore the applicability of Evolutionary Approaches in robotic application development. We believe that this study will enable the researchers to utilize Evolutionary Approaches to solve complex outstanding problems in robotics.