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)

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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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

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/11840541
  • Copyright Information Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
  • Publisher Name Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
  • eBook Packages Computer Science
  • Print ISBN 978-3-540-38608-7
  • Online ISBN 978-3-540-38615-5
  • Series Print ISSN 0302-9743
  • Series Online ISSN 1611-3349