The case for engineering the evolution of robot controllers

Artificial Life 14 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, ALIFE 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 703-710

  Silva, Fernando ^a,c   Duarte, Miguel ^a,b   Oliveira, Sancho Moura ^a,b   Correia, Luís ^c   Christensen, Anders Lyhne ^a,b  

^a Instituto de Telecomunicac 5es   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; CONTROLLERS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

ENGINEERING-ORIENTED; EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; EVOLUTIONARY TECHNIQUES; REAL-WORLD TASK; RESEARCH GROUPS; ROBOT CONTROLLER; ROBOTIC HARDWARE; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 84925126972     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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