Evolutionary robotics: The Sussex approach

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 2-4, 1997, Pages 205-224

  Harvey, I ^a   Husbands, P ^a   Cliff, D ^a   Thompson, A ^a   Jakobi, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial evolution; Control systems; Evolutionary robotics

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER CONTROL; CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBOT LEARNING;

ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0031153174     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(96)00067-X     Document Type: Article

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