Evolutionary Robotics: Taking a biologically inspired approach to the design of autonomous, adaptive machines

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 74-83

  Bongard, Josh C ^a,b  

^a University of Vermont   (United States)

^b Complex Systems Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CAPABILITIES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; META HEURISTIC ALGORITHM; OPTIMAL CONTROL POLICY; ROBOTICS RESEARCH; SEQUENCE OF ACTIONS;

BIOLOGY; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84881514851     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2493883     Document Type: Review

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