An evolutionary approach for robust adaptation of robot behavior to sensor error

GECCO 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1437-1444

  Hecker, Joshua P ^a   Moses, Melanie E ^a  

^a MSC01 1070   (United States)

Author keywords

Biologically inspired systems; Distributed robotics; Evolutionary algorithms; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICALLY-INSPIRED SYSTEMS; DIFFERENT EFFECTS; DISTRIBUTED ROBOTICS; EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH; EVOLUTIONARY METHOD; LOCAL RESOURCES; POSITIONAL ERRORS; RESOURCE COLLECTIONS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ROBOTS; SENSORS;

ERROR DETECTION;

EID: 84882429184     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2464576.2482724     Document Type: Conference Paper

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