Robustness analysis of genetic programming controllers for unmanned aerial vehicles

GECCO 2006 - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 135-142

  Barlow, Gregory J ^a,b   Oh, Choong K ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary robotics; Genetic programming; Robustness; Transference; Unmanned aerial vehicles

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SENSORS; SPACECRAFT;

EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33750249333     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1143997.1144023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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