Evolutionary neurocontrollers for autonomous mobile robots

Neural Networks

Volumn 11, Issue 7-8, 1998, Pages 1461-1478

  Floreano, D ^a   Mondada, F ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b K TEAM SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Artificial evolution; Autonomous mobile robots; Bio inspired machines; Evolution and learning; Machine learning; Neural networks; Robot learning; Robot navigation

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; ROBOTICS; SELECTION;

NEUROCONTROLLERS;

ROBOTS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROL SYSTEM; EVOLUTION; LEARNING; MACHINE; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROBOTICS;

EID: 0032191762     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-6080(98)00082-3     Document Type: Article

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