From wheels to wings with evolutionary spiking circuits

Artificial Life

Volumn 11, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 121-138

  Floreano, Dario ^a   Zufferey, Jean Christophe ^a,b   Nicoud, Jean Daniel ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b DIDEL SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Evolutionary robotics; Flying robots; Micro robots; Spiking neurons; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER VISION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MECHATRONICS; MICROCONTROLLERS; WHEELS; WINGS;

EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; EVOLUTIONARY SPIKING CIRCUITS; FLYING ROBOTS; MICROROBOTS; SPIKING NEURONS; WHEELED ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; EVOLUTION; FORELIMB; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; STANDARD;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MINIATURIZATION; ROBOTICS; WING;

EID: 15544386216     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/1064546053278900     Document Type: Article

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