Simulating the automatic morphogenesis of the virtual > agents

Z. V. Nagoev

News of the Kabardin-Balkar scientific center of RAS, no. 2 (2006), pp. 75-85

Résumé

Basing on the analysis of the process of the morphogenesis of real biological organisms the basic principles of sim-ulation of the genomic control over the morphogenesis of a virtual agent in a physically-correct environment are formulated. The complex agent’s body model consisting of different functional subsystems was developed. The notion of the macrocell comprising the minimal further indivisible functional unit of the virtual agent’s organism was introduced. The timing algorithm for the genetically conditioned processes of regeneration and division of the agent’s microcells was worked out. The problem of forming the agents with the morphology that is locally optimal for the given environment is formulated as multi-generation optimization problem in the genetic algorithm. The fitness function is defined as the agent’s life duration. The boundaries are determined by the physically-correct environment and the deficit of energy in the environment. The chromosomes are the agents’ genomes. The exper-iments on the morphogenesis of the agent’s lower extremities under the conditions of energy deficit and excess were carried out.

Détail

Keywords: virtual agent, genomic control, optimization