A navigating rat animat

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 804-811

  Ball, David ^a   Heath, Scott ^a   Milford, Michael ^b   Wyeth, Gordon ^b   Wiles, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIO-INSPIRED; BIO-INSPIRED ROBOTS; COGNITIVE ABILITY; COGNITIVE MAPS; DIFFERENTIAL DRIVE; EMBODIED COGNITION; FIELD OF VIEWS; FIELD PLOT; FILTERING TECHNIQUE; GRID CELLS; INTERNAL NETWORK; LABORATORY ENVIRONMENT; MAPPING SYSTEMS; ODOMETRY; ODOMETRY SENSOR; SPATIAL LAYOUT; VISUAL CUES; VISUAL SENSOR;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; RATS; SENSORS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84860527907     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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