Predictive information and emergent cooperativity in a chain of mobile robots

Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 166-172

  Der, Ralf ^a   Güttler, Frank ^b   Ay, Nihat ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS DEVELOPMENT; BEHAVIORAL COMPLEXITY; CLOSED-LOOP; COOPERATIVITY; MARKOVIAN; MEASURES OF COMPLEXITY; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; NON-MARKOVIAN; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PREDICTIVE INFORMATION; ROBOT BEHAVIOR; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SENSOR VALUES; TIME HORIZONS; TIME STEP; TWO-WHEEL ROBOTS;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; SENSORS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 77955749455     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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