Embodied evolution: Embodying an evolutionary algorithm in a population of robots

Proceedings of the 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 1999

Volumn 1, Issue , 1999, Pages 335-342

  Watson, Richard A ^a   Ficiei, Sevan G ^a   Pollack, Jordan B ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROBOTS;

AUTOMATIC DESIGN; DISTRIBUTED ROBOTICS; EMBODIED EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; PHYSICAL ROBOTS; ROBOTIC CONTROLLERS; TASK ENVIRONMENT;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84901443966     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.1999.781944     Document Type: Conference Paper

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