A hormone-based controller for evolutionary multi-modular robotics: From single modules to gait learning

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hamann, Heiko ^a   Stradner, Jürgen ^a   Schmickl, Thomas ^a   Crailsheim, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIO-INSPIRED; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EVOLVABILITY; GAIT LEARNING; MULTI-MODULAR; RE-CONFIGURABLE; ROBOT CONFIGURATIONS; ROBOT MORPHOLOGY; ROBOTIC TASKS; SINGLE MODULES; SINGLE ROBOTS;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; CALCULATIONS; CONTROLLERS; NEURAL NETWORKS; ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 79959527119     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2010.5585994     Document Type: Conference Paper

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