Rewarding reactivity to evolve robust controllers without multiple trials or noise

Artificial Life 13: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 379-386

  Lehman, Joel ^a   Risi, Sebastian ^a   D'Ambrosio, David B ^a   Stanley, Kenneth O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCUIT SIMULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

NAVIGATION TASKS; NOISE LEVELS; ROBUST CONTROLLERS;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84874727389     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.7551/978-0-262-31050-5-ch050     Document Type: Conference Paper

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