creators_name: Togelius, Julian
creators_name: Lucas, Simon M.
type: confpaper
datestamp: 2006-10-15
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:39
metadata_visibility: show
title: Evolving controllers for simulated car racing
ispublished: pub
subjects: comp-sci-mach-learn
subjects: comp-sci-neural-nets
subjects: comp-sci-art-intel
full_text_status: public
note: Winner of the best student paper award at CEC 2005.
abstract: This paper describes the evolution of controllers for racing a simulated radio-controlled car around a track, modelled on a real physical track. Five different controller architectures were compared, based on neural networks, force fields and action sequences. The controllers use either egocentric (first person), Newtonian (third person) or no information about the state of the car (open-loop controller). The only controller that is able to evolve good racing behaviour is based on a neural network acting on egocentric inputs.
date: 2005
date_type: published
publisher: IEEE Press
pagerange: 1906-1913
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Togelius, Julian and Lucas, Simon M.  (2005) Evolving controllers for simulated car racing.  [Conference Paper]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/5218/1/Togelius2005Evolving.pdf