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From Animals to Animats 12

12th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2012, Odense, Denmark, August 27-30, 2012, Proceedings

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  1. Tom Ziemke

    1. Informatics Research Centre, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden

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  2. Christian Balkenius

    1. Lund University, Lund, Sweden

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  3. John Hallam

    1. Mærsk McKinney Møller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 7426)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (44 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Animat Approach and Methodology

    1. Natural and Artificial Systems: Compare, Model or Engineer?

      • Kelly Vassie, Giuseppe Morlino
      Pages 1-11

    2. LocoKit: A Robot Construction Kit for Studying and Developing Functional Morphologies

      • Jørgen Christian Larsen, David Brandt, Kasper Stoy
      Pages 12-22

    3. An Introduction to the Analysis of Braitenberg Vehicles 2 and 3 Using Phase Plane Portrait

      • Iñaki Rañó
      Pages 23-32

  3. Perception and Motor Control

    1. Synthesis and Adaptation of Effective Motor Synergies for the Solution of Reaching Tasks

      • Cristiano Alessandro, Juan Pablo Carbajal, Andrea d’Avella
      Pages 33-43

    2. Gaze Allocation Analysis for a Visually Guided Manipulation Task

      • Jose Nunez-Varela, Balaraman Ravindran, Jeremy L. Wyatt
      Pages 44-53

    3. Using Sensorimotor Contingencies for Terrain Discrimination and Adaptive Walking Behavior in the Quadruped Robot Puppy

      • Matej Hoffmann, Nico M. Schmidt, Rolf Pfeifer, Andreas K. Engel, Alexander Maye
      Pages 54-64

    4. How Walking Influences the Development of Absolute Distance Perception

      • Beata J. Grzyb, Angel P. del Pobil, Linda B. Smith
      Pages 65-74

    5. Modelling Interaction in Multi-modal Affordance Processing with Neural Dynamics

      • Boris Durán, Serge Thill
      Pages 75-84

    6. A Bio-inspired Model Reliably Predicts the Collision of Approaching Objects under Different Light Conditions

      • Ana Carolina Silva, Cristina Peixoto dos Santos
      Pages 85-95

    7. Synthesising a Motor-Primitive Inspired Control Architecture for Redundant Compliant Robots

      • Naveen Kuppuswamy, Hugo Gravato Marques, Helmut Hauser
      Pages 96-105

    8. Using Sensorimotor Contingencies for Prediction and Action Planning

      • Alexander Maye, Andreas K. Engel
      Pages 106-116

    9. A Bio-inspired Control System for a Wearable Human-Machine Interface

      • Michele Folgheraiter, Mathias Jordan, Jan Albiez, Frank Kirchner
      Pages 117-126

    10. A Finite Element Method of Electric Image in Weakly Electric Fish

      • Sejoon Ahn, DaeEun Kim
      Pages 127-135

    11. Multimodal Integration of Visual Place Cells and Grid Cells for Navigation Tasks of a Real Robot

      • Adrien Jauffret, Nicolas Cuperlier, Philippe Gaussier, Philippe Tarroux
      Pages 136-145

    12. Towards a Neural Hierarchy of Time Scales for Motor Control

      • Tim Waegeman, Francis Wyffels, Benjamin Schrauwen
      Pages 146-155

    13. Modelling Walking Behaviors Based on CPGs: A Simplified Bio-inspired Architecture

      • Cai Li, Robert Lowe, Tom Ziemke
      Pages 156-166

    14. Plastic Representation of the Reachable Space for a Humanoid Robot

      • Marco Antonelli, Beata J. Grzyb, Vicente Castelló, Angel P. del Pobil
      Pages 167-176

  4. Evolution

    1. Towards Behavioral Consistency in Neuroevolution

      • Charles Ollion, Stéphane Doncieux
      Pages 177-186

    2. Evolving Variants of Neuro-Control Using Constraint Masks

      • Christian Rempis, Frank Pasemann
      Pages 187-197
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, SAB 2012, held in Odense, Denmark, in August 2012. The 22 full papers as well as 22 poster papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: animat approach and methodology; perception and motor control; evolution; learning and adaptation, and collective and social behaviour.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Informatics Research Centre, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden

    Tom Ziemke

  • Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Christian Balkenius

  • Mærsk McKinney Møller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

    John Hallam

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