Taming the beast: Guided self-organization of behavior in autonomous robots

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6226 LNAI, Issue , 2010, Pages 50-61

  Martius, Georg ^a,b,c   Herrmann, J Michael ^a,b,d  

^a BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS ROBOT; ERROR FUNCTION; ROBOT DYNAMICS; SELF ORGANIZING; SELF ORGANIZING PROCESS; SELF-ORGANIZATIONS; SELF-ORGANIZED; SYMBOLIC DESCRIPTION;

ANIMALS; FAULT TOLERANCE; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

ROBOTS;

EID: 78249277893     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15193-4_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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