Evolving spiking neural network controllers for autonomous robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 4620-4626

  Hagras, Hani ^a   Pounds Cornish, Anthony ^a   Colley, Martin ^a   Callaghan, Victor ^a   Clarke, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonmous mobile robots; Fuzzy controllers; Genetic algorithms; Robot navigation; Spiking neural network

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER HARDWARE; FORMAL LOGIC; FUZZY CONTROL; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MAPPING; MOBILE ROBOTS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBABILITY;

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOTS; MECHANICAL LOADINGS; MUTATION; POWER CHIPS; ROBOT NAVIGATION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 3042548406     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1302446     Document Type: Conference Paper

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