Co-evolving controller and sensing abilities in a simulated mars rover explorer

2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2772-2779

  Peniak, M ^a   Marocco, D ^a   Cangelosi, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDS; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTONOMOUS TASK; CO-EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION TECHNIQUES; EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS; EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; EVOLVING CONTROLLERS; GENERALIZATION PERFORMANCE; INFRA-RED SENSOR; MARS ROVERS; NEURAL CONTROL SYSTEM; PHYSICS ENGINE; ROBOT CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROUGH TERRAINS; SENSOR SYSTEMS; SIMULATION MODEL; TERRAIN CONDITIONS;

CALCULATIONS; CONTROLLERS; INFRARED DETECTORS; LANDFORMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SENSORS; SIMULATORS;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 70450014834     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2009.4983290     Document Type: Conference Paper

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