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Fly me to the Moon

An exploration of Genetic Programming

Daan van Berkel and Rico Huijbers

Artificial Intelligence has made a lot of promising breakthroughs, but is it up to the challenge of landing a lander on the moon? Find out yourself by learning the technique of genetic programming and see how well your lander fares.

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Genetic programming is a technique in which a computer generates programmes in a nature inspired way. By encoding programs as abstract syntax trees and creating a population of them, genetic programming will evolve the population by mating programs and mutating them, seeking the best program suited to the task., t

The tasl at hand is a challenging one. Landing a spacecraft on the surface of a moon.

Learn the theory, technique and tools of genetic programming and come away with a valuable understanding of an artificial intelligence subject.

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Daan van Berkel

Daan van Berkel is a enthusiastic software craftsman with a knack for presenting technical details in a clear and concise manner. Driven by the desire for understanding complex matters Daan is always on the lookout for innovative uses of software

Rico Huijbers

Contents

Table of Contents

What this book is all about

Jump aboard the HMS Beagle1

  1. Evolution
  2. Translation
  3. Further reading

Projects

  1. Nadezhda
  2. Moonlander
  3. AGC

Grammars

  1. Grammar Game
  2. Nadezhda
  3. Exercises

Abstract Syntax Trees

  1. Nadezhda AST as enums
  2. Exercises

Parsers

  1. Domain Specific Language
  2. Nadezhda
  3. Exercises

Random Generation of AST

  1. Nadezhda
  2. Generating more complex grammars
  3. Exercises

Environment

  1. Nadezhda
  2. Exercises

Evaluate

  1. Nadezhda

Fitness

  1. Nadezhda
  2. Exercises

Population

  1. Nadezhda
  2. Exercises

Darwin

  1. Nadezhda
  2. Exercises

A framework for Genetic Programming

  1. Overview of the framework
  2. Framework Traits
  3. Moonlander

Appendix: Resources

  1. Workshop
  2. Download
  3. Clone

Appendix: Play the Game

  1. Online
  2. Offline

Appendix: Fast and the Curious

What to Do

  1. Tweak Fitness Function
  2. Bring your own

Tweak Fitness Function

  1. Straight Landing
  2. With a Twist

AGC

  1. Description

Bring your own

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