A morphogenetic approach to self-reconfigurable modular robots using a hybrid hierarchical gene regulatory network

Artificial Life XII: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, ALIFE 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 765-772

  Meng, Yan ^a   Zhang, Yuyang ^a   Jin, Yaochu ^b  

^a Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANGING ENVIRONMENT; CURRENT PATTERNS; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GLOBAL BEHAVIORS; HIERARCHICAL CONTROL; HIERARCHICAL CONTROLLERS; LATTICE-BASED; LOCAL INTERACTIONS; RULE BASED; SECOND LAYER; SELF RECONFIGURATION; SELF-RECONFIGURABLE MODULAR ROBOTS; TARGET PATTERNS;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; GENES;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 79957457093     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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