Evolving a novel bio-inspired controller in reconfigurable robots

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

Volumn 5777 LNAI, Issue PART 1, 2011, Pages 132-139

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION; BIO-INSPIRED; EMBODIED AGENT; EVOLUTIONARY FRAMEWORK; EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; PLURIPOTENT; RECONFIGURABLE ROBOT; ROBOT CONTROLLER; ROBOTIC MODULES; SINGLE PARTS; SMALL ROBOTS;

BIOLOGY; CONTROLLERS; ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 79959975958     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21283-3_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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