Using emergent modularity to develop control systems for mobile robots

Adaptive Behavior

Volumn 5, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 343-363

  Nolfi, Stefano ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autonomous robots; Behavior based robotics; Genetic algorithms; Modularity; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

ARENA;

EID: 0031287712     PISSN: 10597123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/105971239700500306     Document Type: Article

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