Exploring the Kuramoto model of coupled oscillators in minimally cognitive evolutionary robotics tasks

2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2010 - 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Moioli, Renan C ^a   Vargas, Patricia A ^b   Husbands, Phil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR; CATEGORICAL PERCEPTION; COGNITIVE TASK; COUPLED OSCILLATORS; EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; KURAMOTO MODELS; NEURAL DYNAMICS; ROBOT CONTROLLER; ROBOTIC AGENTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); ROBOTICS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 79959426449     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2010.5586486     Document Type: Conference Paper

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