Spent the day figuring out how to improve the way the genome system currently works. The problem is that when I want to add another neuron group, I have to add a lot of other things. I have to add connection information from each existing neuron group to the new neuron group and vice versa.
An idea that came to me as I was drifting off to sleep was a way to make changes due to genome crossing over more gradual. For example, a gene could control speed. Robot alpha could have speed 0.5 and robot bravo could have speed 1. During the crossing over process, the child robot could receive either value.
# alpha bravo charlie 1 0.0 0.1 0.0 2 0.0 0.1 0.0 3 0.0 0.1 0.0 4 0.0 0.1 0.1 5 0.0 0.1 0.1 6 0.1 0.1 0.1 7 0.1 0.1 0.1 8 0.1 0.1 0.1 9 0.1 0.1 0.1 10 0.1 0.1 0.1 --- --- --- 0.5 1.0 0.7
Another way could be that there are ten genes which each contribute 0.1 to the final speed. During crossing over, the child robot might receive 7 speed genes from one and 3 genes from the other to result in 0.7 speed.
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