Morphological computation - Connecting brain, body, and environment

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5436, Issue , 2009, Pages 66-83

  Pfeifer, Rolf ^a   Gomez, Gabriel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Embodiment; Information self structuring; Material properties; Morphological change; Sensor morphology; System Environment interaction

Indexed keywords

EMBODIMENT; INFORMATION SELF-STRUCTURING; MATERIAL PROPERTIES; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGE; SENSOR MORPHOLOGY; SYSTEM- ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION;

DYNAMICS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MORPHOLOGY; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; ROBOTS; SENSORS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 67049095600     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00616-6_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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