Evolving cooperation of simple agents for the control of an autonomous robot

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 968-973

  Téllez, Ricardo A ^a   Angulo, Cecilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agents; Autonomous robots; Distributed controller; Evolution; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLERS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

CO-EVOLUTION; DISTRIBUTED CONTROLLER; ROBOTIC AGENTS; SCALABLE ARCHITECTURES; SENSOR/ACTUATOR;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 61649111672     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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