New robotics: Design principles for intelligent systems

Artificial Life

Volumn 11, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 99-120

  Pfeifer, Rolf ^a   Iida, Fumiya ^a   Bongard, Josh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial evolution and morphogenesis; Ecological balance; Embodied artificial intelligence; Morphological computation; Sensory motor coordination

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; MOTION CONTROL; SENSORS;

ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION; ARTIFICIAL MORPHOGENESIS; ECOLOGICAL BALANCE; EMBODIED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MORPHOLOGICAL COMPUTATION; SENSORY-MOTOR COORDINATION;

ROBOTICS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; ROBOTICS; STANDARD;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; ROBOTICS;

EID: 15444371564     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/1064546053279017     Document Type: Article

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