An experiment in automatic design of robot swarms AutoMoDe-vanilla, EvoStick, and human experts

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

Volumn 8667, Issue , 2014, Pages 25-37

  Francesca, Gianpiero ^a   Brambilla, Manuele ^a   Brutschy, Arne ^a   Garattoni, Lorenzo ^a   Miletitch, Roman ^a   Podevijn, Gaëtan ^a   Reina, Andreagiovanni ^a   Soleymani, Touraj ^a   Salvaro, Mattia ^a,b   Pinciroli, Carlo ^a   Trianni, Vito ^c   Birattari, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROBOTS; SWARM INTELLIGENCE;

AUTOMATIC DESIGN; AUTOMATIC METHOD; DESIGN METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS; HUMAN EXPERT; MANUAL DESIGN; SEARCH SPACES; SWARM ROBOTICS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 85088194995     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09952-1_3     Document Type: Article

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