Reverse-engineering of artificially evolved controllers for swarms of robots

2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 55-61

  Hauert, Sabine ^a   Zufferey, Jean Christophe ^a   Floreano, Dario ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION; DECENTRALIZED CONTROLLER; EFFICIENT STRATEGY; EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS; NEURAL CONTROLLER; ROBOT BEHAVIOR;

BIOLOGY; MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTS;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 68149160527     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2009.4982930     Document Type: Conference Paper

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