Optimized sensory-motor couplings plus strategy extensions for the TORCS car racing challenge

CIG2009 - 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 317-324

  Butz, Martin V ^a   Lönneker, Thies D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL PARAMETERS; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; CONTROL STRATEGIES; COVARIANCE MATRIX ADAPTATION; DISTANCE SENSORS; DRIVING STRATEGY; EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATIONS; EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES; EXTERNAL OBSERVER; FUTURE CHALLENGES; OFFLINE; VELOCITY VECTORS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPETITION; COVARIANCE MATRIX; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; PASSENGER CARS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

RACING AUTOMOBILES;

EID: 71549145305     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2009.5286458     Document Type: Conference Paper

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