Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-v9fdk Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-14T23:20:19.756Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Designing Autonomous Agents: Theory And Practice From Biology To Engineering And Back, edited by Pattie Maes, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, (also Elsevier, Amsterdam), 1990, Soft cover, 194 pp. (£17.95)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

Alex M. Andrew
Alex M. Andrew
Affiliation:
Splatt Mill, Chillaton, Lifton, Devon PL16 OJB (UK)
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Book Reviews
Information
Robotica , Volume 10 , Issue 5 , September 1992 , pp. 475 - 476
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1.Andrew, A.M., “How robotics expands Al” Robotica 5, Part 2, 111–115 (1987).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2.Beer, S., “Towards the cybernetic factory” In: (von Foerster, H. and Zopf, G. W., eds) Principles of Self-Organizatlon (Pergamon, Oxford, 1962) pp. 25–89.Google Scholar
3.Kilmer, W.L., McCulloch, W.S. and Blum, J., “A model of the vertebrate central command system” Int. J. Man-Machine Studies 1, 279–309 (1969).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
4.Lettvin, J.Y., Maturana, H.R., McCulloch, W.S. and Pitts, W., “What the frog's eye tells the frog's brain” Trans. I.R.E. 47, 1940–1951 (1959).Google Scholar
5.Maturana, H.R., Lettvin, J.Y., McCulloch, W.S. and Pitts, W. H., “Anatomy and physiology of vision in the frog (Rana pipiens)” J. Gen. Physiol. Suppl. vol. 43, Pt. 2, No. 6, 129–175 (1960).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
6.Lettvin, J.Y., Maturana, H.R., Pitts, W.H. and McCulloch, W.S., “Two remarks on the visual system of the frog” In: (Rosenblith, W.A., ed.) Sensory Communication (MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1961) pp. 757–776.Google Scholar
7.Gaze, R.M., The Formation of Nerve Connections (Academic Press, N.Y., 1970).Google Scholar