Robogen team is delighted to receive various feature request from the students. We have made a new release today to provide you following additional features:
- Scenario File Debugging (This is one of the most requested features)
Now the user can type the command `console.log('YourString: ' + yourVariable)` and the value appears during the simulation.
Why it is useful? This feature will help you to better understand the inputs and could help you in optimizing the fitness landscape. - The evolved robot can be reused
Now you can use Robot Files in`.json` format (generated by the evolution) in the simulator settings and evolution settings.
Why it is useful? This feature will help you to simulate the evolved robot in a different environment/scenario (to validate its behavior). Further, using an evolved robot as an initial robot of your next evolution makes the Step Evolution even easier. Recap the pros and cons of Step Evolution from the previous laboratory sessions and from the theory before using it. - Adding selective body parts in full body evolution
Now you can specify the list of parts (separated by comma) that evolution can add during the brain-body evolution
Why it is useful? By default, the evolution can keep adding many components to please the fitness function. As we saw in the last exercise, sometimes better robots are obtained by allowing evolution to add an only certain type of body parts. - Explanation of settings parameters
Now you will get a small popover that briefly explains the specific setting of interest. - Ability to use Robogen app in any Linux Computers
Already many students of the course managed to install Robogen App on their own computer (with Linux Operating System) without any complexity. Hence we have attached the installation instructions that can get the app running on your machine in less than 5 minutes.
To update to a new version of Robogen App, follow STEP 3 in the attached file. We believe that these new features will help you to make more progress.
Please feel free to write us with more features requests and share your feedback.
Robogen Team wishes you happy Easter holidays! See you next week.
