Evolution in materio: A real-time robot controller in liquid crystal

Proceedings - NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware, EH

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 229-238

  Harding, Simon ^a   Miller, Julian F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL EQUIPMENT; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NAVIGATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBOTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPUTER CONTROLLED EVOLUTION (CCE); ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; OBSTRUCTED DESTINATION POINT;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 33746256425     PISSN: 15506029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EH.2005.22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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