Evolving competitive car controllers for racing games with neuroevolution

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO-2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1179-1186

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

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

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

Author keywords

Games; NEAT; Simulated car racing; TORCS

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DOMAINS; COMPUTER GAME; EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION TECHNIQUES; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; NEUROEVOLUTION; NEUROEVOLUTION OF AUGMENTING TOPOLOGIES; NON-PLAYER CHARACTER; OPEN SOURCES; SCIENTIFIC COMPETITION; SINGLE CONTROLLERS;

CALCULATIONS; CONTROLLERS; ENGINEERING EXHIBITIONS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

RACING AUTOMOBILES;

EID: 71549131491     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1569901.1570060     Document Type: Conference Paper

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