Vision

Computational Intelligence is an approach to Artificial Intelligence roughly distinguished by its sub-symbolic, bottom-up character and the use of nature-inspired computational methods. We expect that the next wave of artificial intelligence will be collective intelligence, based on heterogeneous groups of many connected units, e.g., smart devices and robots. Furthermore, we envision two features becoming essential: adaptivity and autonomy.

We perceive collectivity, adaptivity, and autonomy as the Grand Challenge in intelligent systems of the future because these systems must be equipped for scenarios where the operational circumstances are:

  • changing,
  • not fully known in advance,
  • so complex that behavioural rules cannot be designed & coded by traditional analytical approaches.

 

Our research addresses fundamental issues about how to design, use, and understand intelligent systems made up by autonomous machines that can self-organise, evolve, and learn. In particular, we work in evolutionary computing, machine learning and complex systems for optimization, modeling, robotics and sensory data processing (e.g., images or audio). The strategic lines of research of the group are:

  • Models and algorithms for evolving and learning machines.
  • Self-organization and evolution in robot swarms.
  • Machine learning, and optimization techniques for non-differentiable complex systems.

Our Team

Prof. dr. Guszti Eiben

Head of the Group

Prof. dr. Guszti Eiben
Dr. Eliseo Ferrante

Assistant Professor

Dr. Eliseo Ferrante
Dr. Anil Yaman
Dr. Anil Yaman

Assistant Professor

Dr. Anil Yaman
Dr. Karine Miras

Assistant Professor

Dr. Karine Miras
Dr. Kevin Luck

Assistant Professor

Dr. Kevin Luck
Dr. Keiichi Ito

PostDoc room: de Boelelaan 1111, 1081HV Amsterdam, Netherlands email: k.ito at vu.nl

Dr. Keiichi Ito
Dr. Kevin Godin-Dubois
Dr. Nicolas Cambier
Ting-Chia Chiang

Scientific Programmer

Ting-Chia Chiang
Alessandro Zonta

PhD Student

Alessandro Zonta
Anna Kuzina

PhD Student

Anna Kuzina
Babak Hosseinkhani Kargar
Fuda van Diggelen

PhD Student

Fuda van Diggelen
Jie Luo

PhD Student

Jie Luo
Matteo De Carlo

PhD Student

Matteo De Carlo
Muhan Hou

PhD Student

Muhan Hou
Tiziano Manoni

PhD Student

Tiziano Manoni
Tugay Alperen Karagüzel

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Our projects

Human-robot teaching and learning

This research direction is concerned in developing computational methods for flexibly transferring information and skills between humans and robots through social interaction. This transfer can

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Bio-inspired Engineering of Advanced Robots (BEAR)

The overarching research theme is the automated design of customised robot solutions. Automated design through evolutionary methods or machine learning is a proven approach to

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Hu-bot cooperation

Hu-bot: promoting safety through the cooperation between humans and mobile robots This project investigates human-robot collaboration in a novel setup: a human helps a mobile

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Ethical Robot Stewards

We study ethics in social robotics from diverse perspectives. Partner Team Dr. Karine Miras Assistant Professor   Dr. Karine Miras Prof. dr. Guszti Eiben Head

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Lamarckian Evolution of Learning Robots

This project concerns the automatic design of morphologies and controllers for a range of tasks in different environments based on the Triangle of Life architecture.

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Generative Continual Learning

Hybrid Intelligence (HI) is the combination of human and machine intelligence, expanding human intellect instead of replacing it. HI takes human expertise and intentionality into

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Evolvable Robots with Phenotypic Plasticity

What makes natural life remarkably complex goes beyond having genes encoding a trait or behavior, as it concerns also mechanisms in the DNA that regulate

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Efficient Deep Learning

A computer that recognises dangerous situations on security footage: this is possible with deep-learning automated systems. But before this kind of system can operate independently,

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Autonomous Robotics Evolution: Cradle to Grave

Imagine an environment where autonomous systems (robots) are not designed by humans (or indeed designed at all) but are created through a series of steps

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Past projects

Data-Driven Lifestyle Support through Smart Devices: [Old Page] Directed locomotion learning for evolving modular robots of arbitrary morphologies: [Old Page] Constrained reinforcement learning for personalization

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