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Chocron, O. (2007). Evolving Modular Robots for Rough Terrain Exploration. In: Nedjah, N., Coelho, L.d.S., Mourelle, L.d.M. (eds) Mobile Robots: The Evolutionary Approach. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 50. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49720-2_2
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