From Animals To Animats 8

by Schaal, Stefan; Ijspeert, Auke; Billard, Aude; Vijayakumar, Sethu; Hallam, John

• ISBN13: 9780262693417
• ISBN10: 0262693410
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-01
• Publisher: Bradford Books

Summary

The biannual International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior brings together researchers from ethology, psychology, ecology, artificial intelligence, artificial life, robotics, engineering, and related fields to advance the understanding of 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 animals and animats. The proceedings of the eighth conference treat such topics as passive and active perception, navigation and mapping, collective and social behavior, and applied adaptive behavior.

Author Biography

Stefan Schaal is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Neuroscience Program at the University of Southern California

Table of Contents

Preface
The Animat Approach to Adaptive Behavior
State of the Artificial Rat Psikharpax	p. 3
Interactions of Environment, Behavior, and Synaptic Patterns in a Neuro-Robotic Model	p. 13
Comparative Cognitive Robotics: Using Autonomous Agents as Empirical Models of Animal Learning	p. 23
Morphology and Computation	p. 33
Constructing an Animat Using 505 Sub-minds from 234 Different Authors	p. 39
May We Have Your Attention: Analysis of a Selective Attention Task	p. 49
Formalization of Recognition, Affordances and Learning in Isolated or Interacting Animats	p. 57
Gallery Structure Formation in Conelyborus scarabaeoides	p. 67
Perception
Towards a Theory of How Bats Navigate through Foliage	p. 77
From Bat Pinnae to Sonar Antennae: Augmented Obliquely Truncated Horns as a Novel Parametric Shape Model	p. 87
Evolving Adaptive, High-Dimensional, Camera-Based Speed Sensors	p. 96
Adaptive Object Tracking with an Anthropomorphic Robot Head	p. 104
Morphology and Learning--A Case Study on Whiskers	p. 114
Simulating Whisker Sensors--On the Role of Material Properties for Morphology, Behavior, and Evolution	p. 122
Spatiotemporal Processing of Whisker Input Supports Texture Discrimination in a Brain-based Device	p. 130
A Biomimetic Whisker for Texture Discrimination and Distance Estimation	p. 140
Motor Control
A Simple, Adaptive Locomotion Toy-System	p. 153
GasNets and Other Evolvable Neural Networks Applied to Bipedal Locomotion	p. 163
Adaptive Locomotion in a Complex Environment: Simulation of Stick Insect Gap Crossing Behavior	p. 173
A Simulation Model of the Locomotion Controllers for the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans	p. 183
Planning the Sequencing of Movement Primitives	p. 193
Biologically Inspired Adaptive Dynamic Walking of a Quadruped Robot	p. 201
Action Selection and Behavioral Sequences
Action Selection and Mental Transformation Based on a Chain of Forward Models	p. 213
Self-Growth of Basic Behaviors in an Action Selection Based Agent	p. 223
Optimal and Non-Optimal Compromise Strategies in Action Selection	p. 233
Using Hormonal Feedback to Modulate Action Selection in a Competitive Scenario	p. 243
Navigation
A Spiking Neuron Model of Head-Direction Cells for Robot Orientation	p. 255
Navigation and Cognitive Map Formation Using Aperiodic Neurodynamics	p. 264
Adaptive Motor Primitive and Sequence Formation in a Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Network	p. 274
Learning and Adaptation
Competitive-Cooperative-Concurrent Reinforcement Learning with Importance Sampling	p. 287
Estimating Future Reward in Reinforcement Learning Animats using Associative Learning	p. 297
Hebbian Reinforcement Learning in a Modular Dynamic Network	p. 305
Learning Human-like Movement Behavior for Computer Games	p. 315
On Ashby's Homeostat: A Formal Model of Adaptive Regulation	p. 324
Toward a Dynamical Systems Analysis of Neuromodulation	p. 334
Homeostatic Plasticity in Recurrent Neural Networks	p. 344
Evolution
Evolving Walking: The Anatomy of an Evolutionary Search	p. 357
The Force Model: Concept, Behavior, Interpretation	p. 364
Evolving a Neurocontroller through a Process of Embryogeny	p. 373
Collective and Social Behaviors
Coordination and Behaviour Integration in Cooperating Simulated Robots	p. 385
Effects of the Topology of Social Networks on Information Transmission	p. 395
Evolving Functional Self-Assembling in a Swarm of Autonomous Robots	p. 405
How Can a Life-like Agent Evoke Its Emotions For Users?--A Method for Inducing Users' Natural Behaviors to Establish "Mutual Adaptation"	p. 415
Hamelin: A Model for Collective Adaptation Based on Internal Stimuli	p. 425
BASC, a Bottom-up Approach to Automated Design of Spatial Coordination	p. 435
The More Radical, the Better: Investigating the Utility of Aggression in the Competition among Different Agent Kinds	p. 445
Imitation in Embodied Agents Results in Self-organization of Behavior	p. 455
Adaptive Behavior in Language and Communication
A Connectionist Approach to Learn Association between Sentences and Behavioral Patterns of a Robot	p. 467
Imitation is not Enough for Lexicon Learning	p. 477
The Sensorimotor Bases of Linguistic Structure: Experiments with Grounded Adaptive Agents	p. 487
Applied Adaptive Behavior
Evolving Opponents for Interesting Interactive Computer Games	p. 499
Evolvable Recovery Membranes in Self-monitoring Aerospace Vehicles	p. 509
Learning to Behave: Adaptive Behavior for Planetary Surface Rovers	p. 519
Author Index	p. 529
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