Running across the reality gap: Octopod locomotion evolved in a minimal simulation

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

Volumn 1468, Issue , 1998, Pages 39-58

  Jakobi, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

AMBIENT LIGHT SENSORS; INFRA-RED SENSOR; MOTOR BEHAVIOURS; MOTOR MOVEMENTS; NEURAL NETWORK CONTROL; REALITY GAPS; TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES; VERTICAL PLANE;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84957799918     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-64957-3_63     Document Type: Conference Paper

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