Evolvable hardware in evolutionary robotics

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-21

  Tan, K C ^a   Wang, L F ^a   Lee, T H ^a   Vadakkepat, P ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Autonomous robots; Evolutionary robotics; Evolvable hardware

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; ROBOTS;

EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; EVOLVABLE HARDWARE;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0742321682     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:AURO.0000008669.57012.88     Document Type: Article

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