Evolving robots able to self-localize in the environment: The importance of viewing cognition as the result of processes occurring at different time-scales

Connection Science

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 231-244

  Nolfi, Stefano ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

NEURONS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0036768220     PISSN: 09540091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540090208559329     Document Type: Article

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