Experiments in evolving communicating controllers for teams of robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 4, Issue , 1998, Pages 3498-3503

  Ashiru, I ^a   Czarnecki, C A ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

communication; Genetic Programming; multiple robots

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; CONTROLLERS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

COMMUNICATION PROCESS; EVOLUTION PROCESS; MULTIPLE MOBILE ROBOT SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE ROBOT; PLANNING AND EXECUTION; ROBOT CONTROLLER; SINGLE-ROBOT SYSTEMS;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING; MOBILE ROBOTS;

GENETIC PROGRAMMING; MULTIPLE MOBILE ROBOT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031637293     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.1998.680979     Document Type: Conference Paper

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