Incremental Robot Shaping

Connection Science

Volumn 10, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 341-360

  Urzelai, Joseba ^a   Floreano, Dario ^a   Dorigo, Marco ^b   Colombetti, Marco ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Behavior based robotics; Evolution and learning; Incremental evolution; Modular architectures; Reinforcement learning; Robot navigation; Robot shaping

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032276461     PISSN: 09540091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/095400998116486     Document Type: Article

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