The evolution of multi-layer neural networks for the control of xpilot agents

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 232-237

  Parker, Matt ^a   Parker, Gary B ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy

Author keywords

Autonomous agent; Control; Genetic algorithm; Neural network; Xpilot; Xpilot AI

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS;

LEARNING CONTROLLERS; NEURAL NETWORK LEARNING METHODS; NODE THRESHOLDS; SPACE COMBAT GAMES;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 34548810723     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2007.368103     Document Type: Conference Paper

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