The Development of Modular Evolutionary Networks for Quadrupedal Locomotion

Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing

Volumn 7, Issue , 2003, Pages 268-273

  Muthuraman, Sethuraman ^a   MacLeod, Christopher ^a   Maxwell, Grant ^a  

^a ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial Neural Networks; Evolutionary Algorithms; Locomotion; Modular Networks; Robots

Indexed keywords

BIPED LOCOMOTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GENES; MUSCLE; NEUROLOGY; ROBOTS;

MODULAR NETWORKS; QUADRUPEDAL LOCOMOTION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 1542316891     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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