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Circle In The Round: State Space Attractors for Evolved Sighted Robots

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The Biology and Technology of Intelligent Autonomous Agents

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This paper presents an analysis of an artificially evolved dynamical network–based control system for a simulated autonomous mobile robot engaged in simple visually guided tasks.

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  1. School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK

    Philip Husbands, Inman Harvey & Dave Cliff

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  1. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Pleinlaan 2, B-1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Luc Steels

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Husbands, P., Harvey, I., Cliff, D. (1995). Circle In The Round: State Space Attractors for Evolved Sighted Robots. In: Steels, L. (eds) The Biology and Technology of Intelligent Autonomous Agents. NATO ASI Series, vol 144. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79629-6_9

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