Evolving Soft Robot

Evolving robot is a project completed by me and Michael Zhu in December of 2022. In this project, we build a physical simulation and applied Coevolving method to evolve a soft robot capable of moving along a designated axis. The robot was constructed from small cubes, each measuring 0.1 meters and capable of independent movement. We started with a 16 x 2 cube configuration and used our algorithm to optimize the shape and movement patterns for maximum speed. The final robot was able to walk at t rate of 0.67 meters per second. We wrote the program in Python and utilized multiple core to speed up the computation process, which took half day to complete.