A Colony of Robots Using Vision Sensing and Evolved Neural Controllers

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 2273-2278

  Nelson, A L ^a   Grant, E ^a   Barlow, G J ^a   Henderson, T C ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral robotics; Evolutionary neural computing; Evolutionary robotics; Mobile robots; Robot colonies; Robot vision; Vision

Indexed keywords

GENETIC PROGRAMMING (GP); PHOTORECEPTORS; SENSOR DATA COMPLEXITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; IMAGE SENSORS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL SENSORS; PHOTODETECTORS; SONAR;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0346778967     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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