Co-evolution of morphology and control of soft-bodied multicellular animats

GECCO'12 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 561-568

  Joachimczak, Michał ^a   Wróbel, Borys ^a,b,c  

^a IOPAN   (Poland)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

artificial embryogenesis; body brain co evolution; development; evolution of locomotion; evolution of morphology; gene regulatory networks; generative and developmental systems; genetic algorithms; soft body animats

Indexed keywords

ANIMATS; ARTIFICIAL EMBRYOGENESIS; CO-EVOLUTION; DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS;

CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MOTION CONTROL;

MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 84864719038     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2330163.2330243     Document Type: Conference Paper

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