With a little help from selection pressures: Evolution of memory in robot controllers

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 407-414

  Charles, Ollion ^a,b   Tony, Pinville ^a,b   Stéphane, Doncieux ^a,b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE ABILITY; COGNITIVE CONTROLLERS; DECEPTIVE PROBLEM; EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; EVOLUTIONARY SEARCH; FITNESS FUNCTIONS; GENERALIZATION ABILITY; INTERNAL REPRESENTATION; MULTI OBJECTIVE; PARTICULAR SOLUTION; REACTIVE BEHAVIOR; ROBOT CONTROLLER; SELECTION PRESSURES; SELECTIVE PRESSURE; STEPPING STONE; WORKING MEMORIES;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84874743067     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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