From Animals to Animates 5

by Pfeifer, Rolf; Blumberg, Bruce; Meyer, Jean-Arcady; Wilson, Stewart W.; Pfeifer, Rolf

• ISBN13: 9780262661447
• ISBN10: 0262661446
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-28
• Publisher: Bradford Books

Summary

The Animals to Animats Conference brings together researchers from ethology, psychology, ecology, artificial intelligence, artificial life, robotics, engineering, and related fields to further understanding of the behaviors and underlying mechanisms that allow natural and synthetic agents (animats) to adapt and survive in uncertain environments. The work presented focuses on well-defined models--robotic, computer-simulation, and mathematical--that help to characterize and compare various organizational principles or architectures underlying adaptive behavior in both natural animals and animats.

Table of Contents

Preface
Bringing Representation Back to Life	p. 3
Some Armchair Worries about Wheeled Behavior	p. 13
Beyond Physical Grounding and Naive Time: Investigations into Short-Term Memory for Autonomous Agents	p. 22
Exploiting Embodiment for Category Learning	p. 32
Learning To Do Without Cognition	p. 38
Learning in Psychologically Plausible Conditions: The Case of an Imaginary Pet Robot	p. 48
Robots and Representations	p. 58
Dynamic Categorization of Explorative Behaviors for Emergence of Stable Sensorimotor Configurations	p. 67
Evolution of Visually-Guided Approach Behavior in Recurrent Artificial Neural Network Robot Controllers	p. 73
Simulation and Robot Implementation of Visual Orientation Behaviors of Flies	p. 77
How Should a Robot Discriminate Between Objects? A Comparison between Two Methods	p. 86
Evolving Motion-Tracking Behavior for Panning Camera Head	p. 92
Look Before You Leap: Peering Behavior for Depth Perception	p. 98
Self-Organizing Internal Representation for Behavior Acquisition of Vision-Based Mobile Robots	p. 104
Visual Looming as a Range Sensor for Mobile Robots	p. 114
Investigation of a Sensorimotor System for Saccadic Scene Analysis: An Integrated Approach	p. 120
Planification versus Sensory-Motor Conditioning: What Are the Issues?	p. 129
Evolving Action Selection and Selective Attention without Actions, Attention, or Selection	p. 139
Dynamical Systems for the Behavioral Organization of an Anthropomorphic Mobile Robot	p. 147
An Extension of Maes' Action Selection Mechanism for Animats	p. 153
Behaviors Coordination Using Restless Bandits Allocation Indexes	p. 159
Behavior-Based Primitives for Articulated Control	p. 165
Selection Behavior in Caddis Fly Larvae	p. 171
Solving a Complex Prisoner's Dilemma with Self-Modifying Policies	p. 177
Modeling Ant Navigation with an Autonomous Agent	p. 185
Simulated and Situated Models of Chemical Trail Following in Ants	p. 195
Reinforcement Landmark Learning	p. 205
Animat Navigation Using a Cognitive Graph	p. 213
Efficient Model-Based Exploration	p. 223
Autonomous Decision Making in Local Navigation	p. 229
Motivated Animat Navigation: A Visually Guided Approach	p. 234
Landmark-Based Navigation for a Mobile Robot	p. 240
A Subsymbolic+Symbolic Model for Learning Sequential Navigation	p. 246
Risk Sensitive and Ambiguity Reducing Dominance Interactions in a Virtual Laboratory	p. 255
Structural Coupling of Cognitive Memories through Adaptive Language Games	p. 263
Learning to Perceive the World as Articulated: An Approach for Hierarchical Learning in Sensory-Motor Systems	p. 270
The Evolution of Subtle Maneuvers in Simulated Hockey	p. 280
Multifunctionality: A Fundamental Property of Behavior Mechanisms Based on Dynamical Systems	p. 286
Species Abundance Adapted to the Energy Flow in Ecosystem Simulation	p. 291
Morpho-Functional Machine: Robotics Approach of Amoeba Model Based on Vibrating Potential Method	p. 297
Modeling of Emergent Ecology for Simulating Adaptive Behavior of Universal Computer Programs	p. 303
Role of Behavior in the Development of Complex Neuronal Properties	p. 311
Learning Hierarchical Control Structures for Multiple Tasks and Changing Environments	p. 321
Improving the DAC Architecture by Using Proprioceptive Sensors	p. 331
Temporal Pattern Learning in a Spiking Neuron Chain	p. 340
Computational Models of Classical Conditioning: A Comparative Study	p. 348
Emotion-Driven Learning for Animat Control	p. 354
Skill Acquisition and Self-Improvement for Environmental Change Adaptation of Mobile Robot	p. 360
Dynamic Action Sequences in Reinforcement Learning	p. 366
Learning Concepts in Software Agents	p. 372
MMC - A Recurrent Neural Network Which Can Be Used As Manipulable Body Model	p. 381
From Lampreys to Salamanders: Evolving Neural Controllers for Swimming and Walking	p. 390
BISAM: From Small Mammals to a Four-Legged Walking Machine	p. 400
Adaptive Behavior of Quadruped Walking Robot under Periodic Perturbation	p. 408
Market Trading Interactions as Collective Adaptive Behavior	p. 417
Sewer Robotics	p. 427
Learning Distributed Strategies for Traffic Control	p. 437
A Society of Agents in Environmental Monitoring	p. 447
Assessing the Role of Social Development in the Evolution of Cooperation	p. 453
Formation of Morphology and Morpho-Function in a Linear-Cluster Robotic System	p. 459
Collective Sorting and Segregation in Robots With Minimal Sensing	p. 465
Tough Guys Don't Dance: Intention Movements and the Evolution of Signalling in Animal Contests	p. 471
Collective Learning for Spatial Collaboration	p. 477
Adaptation to Multiple Robots Organization with Organizational Knowledge on Formation	p. 483
Robot Sheepdog Project Achieves Automatic Flock Control	p. 489
Emergence of Functional Modularity in Robots	p. 497
Coevolving Communicative Behavior in a Linear Pursuer-Evader Game	p. 505
Competitive Coevolutionary Robotics: From Theory to Practice	p. 515
Animal-Animat Coevolution: Using the Animal Population as Fitness Function	p. 525
Perpetuating Evolutionary Emergence	p. 534
Evolutionary Design of Morphology and Intelligence in Robotic System Using Genetic Programming	p. 540
Mate Choice and NK-Landscapes	p. 546
Component-Based Adaptive Architecture with Classifier Systems	p. 551
Evolution of Protean Behavior in Pursuit-Evasion Contests	p. 557
Author Index	p. 563
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