From Animals to Animats 9: 9th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2006, Rome, Itlay, September 25-29, 2006 Proceedings

by Nolfi, Stefano; Baldassare, Gianluca; Calabretta, Raffaele; Hallam, John C. T.; Marocco, Davide

• ISBN13: 9783540386087
• ISBN10: 3540386084
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-30
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2006, held in Rome, Italy in September 2006.The 35 revised full papers and 35 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 140 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on the animat approach to adaptive behaviour, perception and motor control, action selection and behavioral sequences, navigation and internal world models, learning and adaptation, evolution, collective and social behaviours, adaptive behavior in language and communication, and applied adaptive behavior.

Table of Contents

Emotions as a bridge to the environment : on the role of body in organisms and robots	p. 3
Some adaptive advantages of the ability to make predictions	p. 17
Early perceptual and cognitive development in robot vision	p. 31
Visual control of flight speed and height in the honeybee	p. 40
Visual learning of affordance based cues	p. 52
Modelling the peripheral auditory system of lizards	p. 65
A model of sensorimotor coordination in the rat whisker system	p. 77
Biological actuators are not just springs	p. 89
Investigation of reality constraints : morphology and controller of two-link legged locomotors for dynamically stable locomotion	p. 101
Synchronization and gait adaptation in evolving hexapod robots	p. 113
Computer simulation of a climbing insectomorphic robot	p. 126
Adaptive four legged locomotion control based on nonlinear dynamical systems	p. 138
The control of turning in real and simulated stick insects	p. 150
Kinematic modeling and dynamic analysis of the long-based undulation fin of Gymnarchus Niloticus	p. 162
An environmental adaptation mechanism for a biped walking robot control based on elicitation of sensorimotor constraints	p. 174
Dynamic generation and switching of object handling behaviors by a humanoid robot using a recurrent neural network model	p. 185
Distributed action selection by a brainstem neural substrate : an embodied evaluation	p. 199
A schema based model of the praying mantis	p. 211
Perceptual-motor sequence learning via human-robot interaction	p. 224
POTBUG : a mind's eye approach to providing BUG-like guarantees for adaptive obstacle navigation using dynamic potential fields	p. 239
Navigation in large-scale environments using an augmented model of visual homing	p. 251
Evolutionary active vision toward three dimensional landmark-navigation	p. 263
Global navigation through local reference frames	p. 274
Transition cells for navigation and planning in an unknown environment	p. 286
Use your illusion : sensorimotor self-simulation allows complex agents to plan with incomplete self-knowledge	p. 298
Stabilising Hebbian learning with a third factor in a food retrieval task	p. 313
Investigating STDP and LTP in a spiking neural network	p. 323
Spike-timing dependent plasticity learning for visual-based obstacles avoidance	p. 335
An adaptive robot motivational system	p. 346
Incremental skill acquisition for self-motivated learning animats	p. 357
Piagetian adaptation meets image schemas : the jean system	p. 369
A model of reaching that integrates reinforcement learning and population encoding of postures	p. 381
Combining self-organizing maps with mixtures of experts : application to an actor-critic model of reinforcement learning in the basal ganglia	p. 394
From motor babbling to purposive actions : emerging self-exploration in a dynamical systems approach to early robot development	p. 406
Modelling multi-modal learning in a Hawkmoth	p. 422
Adaptive learning application of the MDB evolutionary cognitive architecture in physical agents	p. 434
Why are evolved developing organisms also fault-tolerant?	p. 449
GasNets and CTRNNs - a comparison in terms of evolvability	p. 461
Incremental evolution of robot controllers for a highly integrated task	p. 473
An evolutionary selection model based on a biological phenomenon : the periodical magicicadas	p. 485
Evolving reaction-diffusion controllers for minimally cognitive animats	p. 498
Emergence of coherent coordinated behavior in a network of homogeneous active elements	p. 510
Searching for emergent representations in evolved dynamical systems	p. 522
Modular design of irreducible systems	p. 534
Spatially constrained networks and the evolution of modular control systems	p. 546
Evolving spatiotemporal coordination in a modular robotic system	p. 558
Spiking neural controllers for pushing objects around	p. 570
Hierarchical cooperative CoEvolution facilitates the redesign of agent-based systems	p. 582
Bubbleworld.Evo : artificial evolution of behavioral decisions in a simulated predator-prey ecosystem	p. 594
Incremental evolution of target-following neuro-controllers for flapping-wing animats	p. 606
Evolution and adaptation of an agent driving a scale model of a car with obstacle avoidance capabilities	p. 619
Evolving robot's behavior by using CNNs	p. 631
Experimental study on task teaching to real rats through interaction with a robotic rat	p. 643
Believability testing and Bayesian imitation in interactive computer games	p. 655
Asynchronous cyclic pursuit	p. 667
Evolved homogeneous neuro-controllers for robots with different sensory capabilities : coordinated motion and cooperation	p. 679
Robot learning in a social robot	p. 691
Integration of an autonomous artificial agent in an insect society : experimental validation	p. 703
Collective decision-making based on individual discrimination capability in pre-social insects	p. 713
Economic optimisation in honeybees : adaptive behaviour of a superorganism	p. 725
Cumulative cultural evolution : can we ever learn more?	p. 738
Agents adopting agriculture : modeling the agricultural transition	p. 750
Noisy preferential attachment and language evolution	p. 765
The emergence of communication by evolving dynamical systems	p. 777
Origins of communication in evolving robots	p. 789
The complexity of finding an optimal policy for language convergence	p. 804
Behavioral analysis of mobile robot trajectories using a point distribution model	p. 819
Simbad : an autonomous robot simulation package for education and research	p. 831
Comparing robot controllers through system identification	p. 843
Adaptive fuzzy sliding mode controller for the snorkel underwater vehicle	p. 855
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