Behavior chaining: Incremental behavior integration for evolutionary robotics

Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 64-71

  Bongard, Josh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS ROBOTICS; BEHAVIOR INTEGRATION; EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; LEGGED LOCOMOTION; SELECTION PRESSURES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ENVIRONMENT;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; SCAFFOLDS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 70449933868     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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