Evolving vision-based flying robots

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2525, Issue , 2002, Pages 592-600

  Zufferey, Jean Christophe ^a   Floreano, Dario ^a   Van Leeuwen, Matthijs ^a   Merenda, Tancredi ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; ROBOTS; TEXTURES; VISUAL SERVOING;

EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; HUMAN INTERVENTION; INTERACTION DYNAMICS; NEURAL CIRCUITS; PHYSICAL ROBOTS; ROBOT MORPHOLOGY; VISION SYSTEMS; VISUAL INFORMATION;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 84931401689     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-36181-2_59     Document Type: Conference Paper

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