Evolutionary Robotics

Fernando Montes-Gonzalez

Instituto de Investigaciones en Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Veracruzana, M茅xico

Preprints on evolved controllers, co-evolved communication between robots, and basal ganglia鈥搃nspired action selection, including what survives when behaviour moves from one simulator to another.

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October 2026 路 Software

epuck-remote: Real e-puck Robots and a Calibrated Digital Twin

Montes-Gonzalez, F. (2026). epuck-remote v0.1.0 [software]. MIT licence.

Remote control of e-puck 1 robots over Bluetooth with the stock firmware, a PyBullet twin calibrated against the real robots, and a food-finding demo that runs the same controller on both. Tested on two e-pucks from 2008.

Code
BibTeX 
@software{montesgonzalez2026epuckremote,
  author  = {Montes-Gonzalez, Fernando},
  title   = {epuck-remote: Real e-puck Robots and a Calibrated Digital Twin},
  year    = {2026},
  version = {0.1.0},
  url     = {https://github.com/ferdiex/epuck-remote}
}

October 2026 路 arXiv preprint

The Value of Information and the Emergence of Communication in Evolved e-puck Robots

Montes-Gonzalez, F. (2026). arXiv:2610.13118 [cs.RO].

PDF arXiv DOI Code Zenodo
BibTeX 
@misc{montesgonzalez2026value,
  author        = {Montes-Gonzalez, Fernando},
  title         = {The Value of Information and the Emergence of
                   Communication in Evolved e-puck Robots},
  year          = {2026},
  eprint        = {2610.13118},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.RO},
  doi           = {10.48550/arXiv.2610.13118}
}

October 2026 路 arXiv preprint

Evaluating the Transfer of Co-Evolved Communication from 2D to 3D Simulation

Montes-Gonzalez, F. (2026). arXiv:2610.09280 [cs.RO].

PDF arXiv DOI Code Demo
BibTeX 
@misc{montesgonzalez2026transfer2d3d,
  author        = {Montes-Gonzalez, Fernando},
  title         = {Evaluating the Transfer of Co-Evolved Communication
                   from 2D to 3D Simulation},
  year          = {2026},
  eprint        = {2610.09280},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.RO},
  doi           = {10.48550/arXiv.2610.09280}
}

September 2026 路 Preprints.org

Walking and Chewing Gum: A Basal Ganglia Vertebrate Robot Under Realistic Contact Physics

Montes-Gonzalez, F. (2026). Preprints 2026, 2026092037.

Preprint DOI Code Zenodo
BibTeX 
@article{montesgonzalez2026walking,
  author  = {Montes-Gonzalez, Fernando},
  title   = {Walking and Chewing Gum: A Basal Ganglia Vertebrate Robot
             Under Realistic Contact Physics},
  journal = {Preprints},
  year    = {2026},
  pages   = {2026092037},
  doi     = {10.20944/preprints202609.2037.v1}
}

September 2026 路 arXiv preprint

Behavioral Persistence and Incomplete Functional Transfer of Co-evolved Communication in Evolutionary Robotics

Montes-Gonzalez, F. (2026). arXiv:2609.38527 [cs.RO].

PDF arXiv DOI Code
BibTeX 
@misc{montesgonzalez2026persistence,
  author        = {Montes-Gonzalez, Fernando},
  title         = {Behavioral Persistence and Incomplete Functional Transfer
                   of Co-evolved Communication in Evolutionary Robotics},
  year          = {2026},
  eprint        = {2609.38527},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.RO},
  doi           = {10.48550/arXiv.2609.38527}
}