Self-assembly in physical autonomous robots: The evolutionary robotics approach

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 616-623

  Tuci, Elio ^a   Ampatzis, Christos ^a   Trianni, Vito ^b   Christensen, Anders Lyhne ^c   Dorigo, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION; DYNAMICAL NEURAL NETWORKS; EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; NEURO CONTROLLERS; PHYSICAL ROBOTS; SELF-ASSEMBLE;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

ROBOTS;

EID: 79959970696     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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