Hierarchical evolution of robotic controllers for complex tasks

2012 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics, ICDL 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Duarte, Miguel ^a   Oliveira, Sancho ^a   Christensen, Anders Lyhne ^a  

^a INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP FASHION; COMPLEX TASK; OFFLINE; ROBOTIC CONTROLLERS; ROBOTIC HARDWARE; SUBTASKS;

HARDWARE; NEURAL NETWORKS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84872834712     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DevLrn.2012.6400828     Document Type: Conference Paper

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