Phylogenetic and Ontogenetic Learning in a Colony of Interacting Robots

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 85-100

  Agah, Arvin ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i}   Bekey, George A ^{b,c,j,k,l,m,n}  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^f IBM   (United States)

^g XEROX CORPORATION   (United States)

^h Xerox Corp's Webster Res Center ^*

ⁱ IEEE   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l BECKMAN COULTER INC   (United States)

^m NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

ⁿ NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

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Author keywords

Cognitive architecture; Distributed systems; Multi agent systems; Ontogenetic learning; Phylogenetic learning; Robot colony

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; MOTION PLANNING; PERFORMANCE;

COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ONTOGENETIC LEARNING; PHYLOGENETIC LEARNING; ROBOT COLONY;

ROBOT LEARNING;

EID: 0030707981     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008811203902     Document Type: Article

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