Maze exploration behaviors using an integrated evolutionary robotics environment

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 159-173

  Nelson, A L ^a   Grant, E ^a   Galeotti, J M ^a   Rhody, S ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral Robotics; Distributed Robotics; Evolutionary neural networks; Evolutionary Robotics; Robot colonies

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY; MOBILE ROBOTS; NEURAL NETWORKS; RESEARCH; SENSORS;

BEHAVIORAL ROBOTICS; DISTRIBUTED ROBOTICS; EVOLUTIONARY NEURAL NETWORKS; EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; ROBOT COLONIES;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 1442283130     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2003.11.002     Document Type: Article

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