| Evorobot is a software for running evolutionary
robotics experiments that has been developed by Stefano Nolfi. It allows to replicate many of
the experiments described in Nolfi S. and Floreano D.
[2000]. Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of
Self-Organizing Machines. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books and to run your own
experiments. Evorobot runs on Windows95/98 and Windows NT. Source files are written in C and C++ and can be re-compiled with Microsoft Visual C 4.0 or higher. Evorobot allows you to run evolutionary experiment in simulation or on a real robot. To run evolutionary experiments on the real robot or to test individuals evolved in simulation on the real robot you need a Khepera robot. Khepera was designed and built at the Laboratory of Microprocessors and Interfaces, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (Mondada et al., 1993) and is currently distributed and supported by K-Team S.A. My ability to support Evorobot is limited, and I cannot guarantee that all bugs will be promptly fixed (although obviously it is in my interest to fix serious bugs which limit the software's usefulness). Bugs should be reported by sending email to nolfi@ip.rm.cnr.it. The evorobot package consist of a zipped file evorobot.zip that contains the executable (evorobot.exe), the user manual in pdf manual.pdf, the source files (*.c, *.h, *.rc *.hm files), and a set of sample files (*.cf, *.env, *.sam). For more information about Evolutionary Robotics visit the Evolutionary Robotics Home Page.
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