On-line neuroevolution applied to the open racing car simulator

2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2622-2629

  Cardamone, Luigi ^a   Loiacono, Daniele ^a   Lanzi, Pier Luca ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAR SIMULATOR; COMPUTER GAME; GAME EXPERIENCE; NEUROEVOLUTION; NON-PLAYER CHARACTER; OFF-LINE LEARNING; ONLINE LEARNING; OPEN SOURCES; RESEARCH DIRECTIONS;

AUTOMOBILE SIMULATORS; EDUCATION; INTERNET; LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

RACING AUTOMOBILES;

EID: 70449984086     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2009.4983271     Document Type: Conference Paper

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