Incremental evolution of neural controllers for robust obstacle-avoidance in Khepera

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1468, Issue , 1998, Pages 227-247

  Chavas, Joël ^a   Corne, Christophe ^a   Horvai, Peter ^a   Kodjabachian, Jérôme ^a   Meyer, Jean Arcady ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLERS; MOBILE ROBOTS; RACING AUTOMOBILES; ROBOTICS;

ADDITIONAL EXPERIMENTS; DIRECT APPROACH; EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS; EVOLUTIONARY STAGE; INCREMENTAL APPROACH; INCREMENTAL EVOLUTIONS; LIGHT CONDITIONS; NEURAL CONTROLLER;

EDUCATIONAL ROBOTS;

EID: 14044275938     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-64957-3_75     Document Type: Conference Paper

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