Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents)

By Dario Floreano and Stefano Nolfi

Book Overview

Evolutionary robotics is a new technqiue 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 engineering. The resulting robots share with simple biological systems the characteristics of robustness, simplicity, small size, flexibility and modularity.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262140705
• ISBN13: 9780262140706
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Bradford Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 7.0"