From natural to artificial life: Biomimetic mechanisms in animat designs

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 3-21

  Meyer, Jean Arcady ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Action selection; Animats; Development; Evolution; Navigation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; BIONICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIGATION;

ACTION SELECTION; ANIMATS; BIOMIMETIC MECHANISMS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0031268895     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(97)00013-4     Document Type: Article

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