Growth in co-evolution of sensory system and signal processing for optimal wing control

Abstract

The development of adaptive systems, which react autonomously to changes in their environment, require the coordinated generation of sensors, providing information about the environment and signal processing structures, which generate suitable reactions to changed conditions. In this work we demonstrate the applicability of a concurrent evolutionary design of the optimal sensory and controller parts of a system for the example of an adaptive wing design. The focus of the work is twofold. First on the realization of developmental stages of the sensory and controlling systems design, defined as a growth process, and second on the comparison of the differences in structures of the systems developed through the presented evolutionary growth method and of evolved systems, having fixed set of sensory elements. We ascertained that the success of the realized growth process depends among others on the relation between the triggering methods and timing of the system enlargement and on parameter settings of the optimization strategy after a growth phase.