Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines

by Dario Floreano and Stefano Nolfi

Book Overview

Evolutionary robotics is a new technique for the automatic creation of autonomous robots. Inspired by the Darwinian principle of selective reproduction of the fittest, it views robots as autonomous artificial organisms that develop their own skills in close interaction with the environment and without human intervention. Drawing heavily on biology and ethology, it uses the tools of neural networks, genetic algorithms, dynamic systems, and biomorphic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262640562
• ISBN13: 9780262640565
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher