NNRG People - Faustino Gomez

Faustino Gomez

Postdoctoral Alumni, Ph.D. Alumni

In his dissertation work, Tino developed the Enforced SubPopulations (ESP) neuroevolution method and applied it to robust nonlinear control, including that of a finless rocket RSX-2. He went on to work at IDSIA, Switzerland, where he extended the method further into the level of individual weights in CoSYNE, and has applied it to several domains in robotics and otherwise. He is also passionate about designing and building guitars.

Email:

tino [at] idsia ch

Homepage:

http://www.idsia.ch/~tino/

Projects

Solving Non-Markov Control Tasks	1996 - 2006
Controlling a Finless Rocket Through Neuroevolution	2002 - 2003
Dynamic Resource Allocation on a Multiprocessor Chip	2000 - 2002

Demos

Finless Rocket Control	Faustino Gomez	2003
Double Pole Balancing with ESP	Faustino Gomez	1999

Publications

Accelerated Neural Evolution through Cooperatively Coevolved Synapses	Faustino Gomez, Juergen Schmidhuber, and Risto Miikkulainen	Journal of Machine Learning Research:937-965, 2008.	2008

Efficient Non-Linear Control through Neuroevolution	Faustino Gomez, Juergen Schmidhuber, and Risto Miikkulainen	In Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning, 654-662, Berlin, 2006. Springe...	2006

Transfer of Neuroevolved Controllers in Unstable Domains	Faustino J. Gomez and Risto Miikkulainen	In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Berlin, 2004. Springer...	2004

Robust Non-Linear Control through Neuroevolution	Faustino J. Gomez	PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, 2003.	2003

PhD Thesis: Robust Non-Linear Control through Neuroevolution	Faustino J. Gomez	Technical Report AI-TR-03-303, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Augus...	2003

Active Guidance for a Finless Rocket Using Neuroevolution	Faustino J. Gomez and Risto Miikkulainen	In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2084-2095, San Francis...	2003

A Neuroevolution Method For Dynamic Resource Allocation On A Chip Multiprocessor	Faustino J. Gomez, Doug Burger, and Risto Miikkulainen	In Proceedings of the {INNS-IEEE} International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2355-23...	2001

Solving Non-Markovian Control Tasks With Neuroevolution	Faustino J. Gomez and Risto Miikkulainen	In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1356-1361, S...	1999

2-D Pole Balancing With Recurrent Evolutionary Networks	Faustino Gomez and Risto Miikkulainen	In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN-98), 425-...	1998

Incremental Evolution Of Complex General Behavior	Faustino Gomez and Risto Miikkulainen	Adaptive Behavior(5):317-342, 1997.	1997

Software/Data

CoSyNE C++	CoSyNE is a neuroevolution method where synapses of the network are evolved in separate subpopulations in a cooperative ...	2011

ESP C++	The ESP package contains the source code for the Enforced Sup-Populations system written in C++. ESP is an extension t...	2000

Areas of Interest

Evolutionary Computation Neuroevolution Control Robotics