The evolution of different neuronal control structures for autonomous agents

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 199-213

  Salomon, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Autonomous agents; Braitenberg vehicles; Evolutionary algorithms; Evolving neural network controllers; Receptive fields

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

BRAINTENBERG CONTROLLERS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; EVOLVING NEURAL NETWORK CONTROLLERS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0031380539     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(97)00039-0     Document Type: Article

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