Evolving virtual creatures and catapults

Artificial Life

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 139-157

  Chaumont, Nicolas ^a,b   Egli, Richard ^a   Adami, Christoph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b KECK GRADUATE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial life; Catapults; Coevolution; Dynamics simulator; Genetic algorithm; Walkers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MORPHOLOGY;

ARTIFICIAL LIFE; BLOCK-THROWING CREATURES; COEVOLUTION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; GAIT; MOTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); WALKING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; GAIT; MOTION; MOVEMENT; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WALKING;

EID: 33947208551     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: 15309185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/artl.2007.13.2.139     Document Type: Article

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