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In recent years researchers in the Department of Cybernetics have been developing simple mobile robots capable of exploring their environment on the basis of the information obtained from a few simple sensors. These robots are used as the test bed for exploring various behaviours of single and multiple organisms: the work is inspired by considerations of natural systems. That part of the work which involves neural networks and related techniques is discussed. These neural networks are used both to process the sensor information and to develop the strategy used to control the robot. Here the robots, their sensors, and the neural networks used are all described.
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Mitchell, R.J., Keating, D.A. (1998). Neural Network Control of a Simple Mobile Robot. In: Landau, L.J., Taylor, J.G. (eds) Concepts for Neural Networks. Perspectives in Neural Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3427-5_4
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