On-line evolution of controllers for aggregating swarm robots in changing environments

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

Volumn 7492 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2012, Pages 245-254

  Weel, Berend ^a   Hoogendoorn, Mark ^a   Eiben, A E ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANGING ENVIRONMENT; GRAND CHALLENGE; HUMAN INTERVENTION; REAL TIME; SELF-CONFIGURABLE; SWARM ROBOTS;

BIOLOGY; ROBOTS;

AGGREGATES;

EID: 84866375952     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32964-7_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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