Evolution of hierarchical controllers for multirobot systems

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 657-664

  Duarte, Miguel ^a   Oliveira, Sancho Moura ^a   Christensen, Anders Lyhne ^a  

^a INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; CONTROLLERS; COORDINATION REACTIONS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MACHINE DESIGN;

COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR; COLLECTIVE DECISION MAKING; DEGREE OF COORDINATION; EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH; HIERARCHICAL CONTROLLERS; PRE-MATURE CONVERGENCES; PRE-PROGRAMMED CONTROL; SELF-ORGANIZED BEHAVIORS;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84938978283     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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