Information-Theoretic aspects of control in a bio-hybrid robot device

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 33-40

  Artmann, Stefan ^a   Tsuda, Soichiro ^b   Zauner, Klaus Peter ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL DEVICES; COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; COMPUTING RESOURCE; COMPUTING SUBSTRATES; INFORMATION PROCESSING CAPABILITY; INFORMATION PROCESSOR; INTEGRAL COMPONENTS; MATERIAL BASIS; NATURAL SYSTEMS; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; REAL TIME; ROBOT CONTROLLER;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INFORMATION THEORY;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 80052070231     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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