A modular approach to self-organization of robot control based on language instruction

Connection Science

Volumn 15, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 73-94

  Wermter, Stefan ^a   Elshaw, Mark ^a   Farrand, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Language instruction; Modular self organizing model; Robot control

Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSORS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 0242551565     PISSN: 09540091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540090310001629308     Document Type: Review

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