Complex taxis-behavior in a novel bio-inspired robot controller

Artificial Life XII: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, ALIFE 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 648-655

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS AND SENSORS; BIO-INSPIRED; BIO-INSPIRED ROBOTS; CHEMICAL SIGNALS; COMPLEX BEHAVIOR; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; MOVEMENT BEHAVIOR; MULTI AGENT SIMULATION; NEURONAL STRUCTURE; ROBOT CONTROLS; ROBOTIC HARDWARE; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SENSOR EQUIPMENTS; SIGNAL EMISSION; SWARM ROBOTICS; UNICELLULAR ORGANISMS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; HARDWARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROORGANISMS; ROBOTICS; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 84859613573     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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