Evolution of neural networks for helicopter control: Why modularity matters

2006 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1799-1806

  De Nardi, Renzo ^a   Togelius, Julian ^a   Holland, Owen E ^a   Lucas, Simon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC MODELS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPEED CONTROL; VEHICLES;

AUTOMATIC DEVELOPMENT; COMPETITIVE CONTROLLERS; FLOCKING; MODULARITY;

HELICOPTERS;

EID: 34547345840     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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