Brains, bodies, and beyond: Competitive co-evolution of robot controllers, morphologies and environments

Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 25-51

  Buason, Gunnar ^a   Bergfeldt, Nicklas ^a   Ziemke, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; SENSORS;

COGNITIVE SCIENCE; EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; ROBOT CONTROLLERS; ROBOT MORPHOLOGY;

NEUROLOGY;

EID: 11144265793     PISSN: 13892576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10710-005-7618-x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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