Evolution of spiking neural circuits in autonomous mobile robots

International Journal of Intelligent Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1005-1024

  Floreano, Dario ^a   Epars, Yann ^a   Zufferey, Jean Christophe ^a   Mattiussi, Claudio ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MICROCONTROLLERS; NAVIGATION; NEURAL NETWORKS;

FITNESS FUNCTIONS; GENETIC ENCODING; SPIKING NEURAL ARCHITECTURES; SYNAPTIC CONNECTIONS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33748302812     PISSN: 08848173     EISSN: 1098111X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/int.20173     Document Type: Article

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