Morphology independent learning in modular robots

Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 8

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 379-391

  Christensen, David Johan ^a   Bordignon, Mirko ^a   Schultz, Ulrik Pagh ^a   Shaikh, Danish ^a   Stoy, Kasper ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MODULAR ROBOTS; MORPHOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; ROBOTICS;

BEHAVIOR-BASED; DISTRIBUTED REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; GLOBAL REWARD SIGNALS; HAND CODING; INDEPENDENT LEARNING; LEARNING STRATEGY; LOCOMOTION CONTROLLERS; ROBOT CONFIGURATIONS;

EDUCATIONAL ROBOTS;

EID: 84878568877     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00644-9_34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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