Experiments on fault-tolerant self-reconfiguration and emergent self-repair

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, CI-ALife 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 355-361

  Christensen, David Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; REDUNDANCY; ROBOTICS;

CATASTROPHIC MODULE; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; MODULE REDUNDANCY;

FAULT TOLERANCE;

EID: 34548791162     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ALIFE.2007.367817     Document Type: Conference Paper

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