Evolving morphology and control: A distributed approach

2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2217-2224

  Mazzapioda, M ^a,b   Cangelosi, A ^b   Nolfi, S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY PARTS; CONTROL MECHANISM; DISTRIBUTED APPROACHES; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEM; EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTS; GROWING RULES; INDEPENDENT COMPONENTS; IRREGULAR TERRAIN; MORPHOGENETIC PROCESS; NEURAL CONTROLLER; PHYSICAL ACTION; SENSORY INFORMATION; SIMULATED ROBOT; STRUCTURAL PARTS; TIME AND SPACE;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; MORPHOLOGY; ROBOTICS;

ACCESS CONTROL;

EID: 70450057350     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2009.4983216     Document Type: Conference Paper

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