Evolving non-trivial behaviors on real robots: A garbage collecting robot

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 187-198

  Nolfi, Stefano ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autonomous robots; Evolutionary robotics; Genetic algorithms; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; ROBOTICS;

AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS; EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0031380540     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(97)00038-9     Document Type: Article

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