An Evolvable Approach to the Maes Action Selection Mechanism

Action selection mechanisms typically involve considerable design effort and parameter tuning. This work considers some of the different approaches to the action selection problem, with particular attention to the Maes action selection mechanism. An implementation of the Maes mechanism is designed that requires no tuning, but instead uses a genetic algorithm to select for the most effective action selection networks from a population. In this way, a complimentary set of parameters can be evolved instead of being tuned by hand.

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