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From Animals to Animats 9

9th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2006, Rome, Italy, September 25-29, 2006. Proceedings

  • Stefano Nolfi
  • Gianluca Baldassarre
  • Raffaele Calabretta
  • John C. T. Hallam
  • Davide Marocco
  • Jean-Arcady Meyer
  • Orazio Miglino
  • Domenico Parisi
Conference proceedings SAB 2006

Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 4095)

Also part of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence book sub series (LNAI, volume 4095)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
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  2. The Animat Approach to Adaptive Behaviour

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Emotions as a Bridge to the Environment: On the Role of Body in Organisms and Robots
      Carlos Herrera Pérez, David C. Moffat, Tom Ziemke
      Pages 3-16
    3. Some Adaptive Advantages of the Ability to Make Predictions
      Daniele Caligiore, Massimo Tria, Domenico Parisi
      Pages 17-28

  3. Perception and Motor Control

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 29-29
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    2. Early Perceptual and Cognitive Development in Robot Vision
      Xing Zhang, Mark H. Lee
      Pages 31-39
    3. Visual Control of Flight Speed and Height in the Honeybee
      Emily Baird, Mandyam V. Srinivasan, Shaowu Zhang, Richard Lamont, Ann Cowling
      Pages 40-51
    4. Visual Learning of Affordance Based Cues
      Gerald Fritz, Lucas Paletta, Manish Kumar, Georg Dorffner, Ralph Breithaupt, Erich Rome
      Pages 52-64
    5. Modelling the Peripheral Auditory System of Lizards
      Lei Zhang, John Hallam, Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard
      Pages 65-76
    6. A Model of Sensorimotor Coordination in the Rat Whisker System
      Ben Mitchinson, Martin Pearson, Chris Melhuish, Tony J. Prescott
      Pages 77-88
    7. Biological Actuators Are Not Just Springs
      Thomas Buehrmann, Ezequiel Di Paolo
      Pages 89-100
    8. Investigation of Reality Constraints: Morphology and Controller of Two-Link Legged Locomotors for Dynamically Stable Locomotion
      Kojiro Matsushita, Hiroshi Yokoi, Tamio Arai
      Pages 101-112
    9. Synchronization and Gait Adaptation in Evolving Hexapod Robots
      Mariagiovanna Mazzapioda, Stefano Nolfi
      Pages 113-125
    10. Computer Simulation of a Climbing Insectomorphic Robot
      Yury F. Golubev, Victor V. Korianov
      Pages 126-137
    11. Adaptive Four Legged Locomotion Control Based on Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
      Giorgio Brambilla, Jonas Buchli, Auke Jan Ijspeert
      Pages 138-149
    12. The Control of Turning in Real and Simulated Stick Insects
      Hugo Rosano, Barbara Webb
      Pages 150-161
    13. Kinematic Modeling and Dynamic Analysis of the Long-Based Undulation Fin of Gymnarchus Niloticus
      Guangming Wang, Lincheng Shen, Tianjiang Hu
      Pages 162-173
    14. An Environmental Adaptation Mechanism for a Biped Walking Robot Control Based on Elicitation of Sensorimotor Constraints
      Shunsuke Iida, Toshiyuki Kondo, Koji Ito
      Pages 174-184
    15. Dynamic Generation and Switching of Object Handling Behaviors by a Humanoid Robot Using a Recurrent Neural Network Model
      Kuniaki Noda, Masato Ito, Yukiko Hoshino, Jun Tani
      Pages 185-196

  4. Action Selection and Behavioral Sequences

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 197-197
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    2. Distributed Action Selection by a Brainstem Neural Substrate: An Embodied Evaluation
      Mark Humphries, Tony Prescott
      Pages 199-210
    3. A Schema Based Model of the Praying Mantis
      Giovanni Pezzulo, Gianguglielmo Calvi
      Pages 211-223
    4. Perceptual-Motor Sequence Learning Via Human-Robot Interaction
      Jean-David Boucher, Peter Ford Dominey
      Pages 224-235

  5. Navigation and Internal World Models

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 237-237
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    2. POTBUG: A Mind’s Eye Approach to Providing BUG-Like Guarantees for Adaptive Obstacle Navigation Using Dynamic Potential Fields
      Michael Weir, Anthony Buck, Jon Lewis
      Pages 239-250
    3. Navigation in Large-Scale Environments Using an Augmented Model of Visual Homing
      Lincoln Smith, Andrew Philippides, Phil Husbands
      Pages 251-262
    4. Evolutionary Active Vision Toward Three Dimensional Landmark-Navigation
      Mototaka Suzuki, Dario Floreano
      Pages 263-273
    5. Global Navigation Through Local Reference Frames
      John Pisokas
      Pages 274-285
    6. Transition Cells for Navigation and Planning in an Unknown Environment
      N. Cuperlier, M. Quoy, C. Giovannangeli, P. Gaussier, P. Laroque
      Pages 286-297
    7. Use Your Illusion: Sensorimotor Self-simulation Allows Complex Agents to Plan with Incomplete Self-knowledge
      Richard Vaughan, Mauricio Zuluaga
      Pages 298-309

  6. Learning and Adaptation

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 311-311
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    2. Stabilising Hebbian Learning with a Third Factor in a Food Retrieval Task
      Adedoyin Maria Thompson, Bernd Porr, Florentin Wörgötter
      Pages 313-322
    3. Investigating STDP and LTP in a Spiking Neural Network
      Daniel Bush, Andrew Philippides, Phil Husbands, Michael O’Shea
      Pages 323-334
    4. Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity Learning for Visual-Based Obstacles Avoidance
      Hédi Soula, Guillaume Beslon
      Pages 335-345
    5. An Adaptive Robot Motivational System
      George Konidaris, Andrew Barto
      Pages 346-356
    6. Incremental Skill Acquisition for Self-motivated Learning Animats
      Andrea Bonarini, Alessandro Lazaric, Marcello Restelli
      Pages 357-368
    7. Piagetian Adaptation Meets Image Schemas: The Jean System
      Yu-Han Chang, Paul R. Cohen, Clayton T. Morrison, Robert St. Amant, Carole Beal
      Pages 369-380
    8. A Model of Reaching that Integrates Reinforcement Learning and Population Encoding of Postures
      Dimitri Ognibene, Angelo Rega, Gianluca Baldassarre
      Pages 381-393
    9. Combining Self-organizing Maps with Mixtures of Experts: Application to an Actor-Critic Model of Reinforcement Learning in the Basal Ganglia
      Mehdi Khamassi, Louis-Emmanuel Martinet, Agnès Guillot
      Pages 394-405
    10. From Motor Babbling to Purposive Actions: Emerging Self-exploration in a Dynamical Systems Approach to Early Robot Development
      Ralf Der, Georg Martius
      Pages 406-421
    11. Modelling Multi-modal Learning in a Hawkmoth
      Anna Balkenius, Almut Kelber, Christian Balkenius
      Pages 422-433
    12. Adaptive Learning Application of the MDB Evolutionary Cognitive Architecture in Physical Agents
      F. Bellas, A. Faiña, A. Prieto, R. J. Duro
      Pages 434-445

  7. Evolution

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 447-447
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    2. Why Are Evolved Developing Organisms Also Fault-Tolerant?
      Diego Federici, Tom Ziemke
      Pages 449-460
    3. GasNets and CTRNNs – A Comparison in Terms of Evolvability
      Sven Magg, Andrew Philippides
      Pages 461-472
    4. Incremental Evolution of Robot Controllers for a Highly Integrated Task
      Anders Lyhne Christensen, Marco Dorigo
      Pages 473-484
    5. An Evolutionary Selection Model Based on a Biological Phenomenon: The Periodical Magicicadas
      Marco Remondino, Alessandro Cappellini
      Pages 485-497
    6. Evolving Reaction-Diffusion Controllers for Minimally Cognitive Animats
      Kyran Dale
      Pages 498-509
    7. Emergence of Coherent Coordinated Behavior in a Network of Homogeneous Active Elements
      Gentaro Morimoto, Takashi Ikegami
      Pages 510-521
    8. Searching for Emergent Representations in Evolved Dynamical Systems
      Thomas Hope, Ivilin Stoianov, Marco Zorzi
      Pages 522-533

About these proceedings

Keywords

Fuzzy Navigation actuator adaptation adaptive learning alife artificial life artificial societies autonom autonomous agents bioinspired computing calculus computer games optimization robot

Editors and affiliations

  • Stefano Nolfi
    • 1
  • Gianluca Baldassarre
    • 2
  • Raffaele Calabretta
    • 3
  • John C. T. Hallam
    • 4
  • Davide Marocco
    • 3
  • Jean-Arcady Meyer
    • 5
  • Orazio Miglino
    • 6
  • Domenico Parisi
    • 7
  1. 1.Institute of Cognitive Sciences and TechnologiesLARRALRomaItaly
  2. 2.Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology(ISTC-CNR)RomeItaly
  3. 3.Institute of Cognitive Science and TechnologyISTC-CNRRomeItaly
  4. 4.The Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller InstituteUniversity of Southern DenmarkOdense MDenmark
  5. 5.UPMC Univ Paris 6, FRE2507, ISIRParisFrance
  6. 6.Laboratory of Autonomous Robotics and Artificial Life, Institute of Cognitive, Sciences and Technologies, National Research CouncilRomeItaly
  7. 7.Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research CouncilRomeItaly

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