Modeling robot cognitive activity through active mental entities

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 325-349

  Baroni, Pietro ^a   Fogli, Daniela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ROBOT LEARNING;

KHEPERA SIMULATOR; MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 0033889059     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(99)00101-3     Document Type: Article

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