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From Animals to Animats 14

14th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2016, Aberystwyth, UK, August 23-26, 2016, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 9825)

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

Conference series link(s): SAB: International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior

Conference proceedings info: SAB 2016.

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Table of contents (31 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
  2. Circumnutation: From Plants to Robots

    • Michael B. Wooten, Ian D. Walker
    Pages 1-11
  3. Using Marker-Based Motion Capture to Develop a Head Bobbing Robotic Lizard

    • Anna Frohnwieser, Alexander P. Willmott, John C. Murray, Thomas W. Pike, Anna Wilkinson
    Pages 12-21
  4. An Architecture for Pattern Recognition and Decision-Making

    • Amy de Buitléir, Ronan Flynn, Michael Russell, Mark Daly
    Pages 22-33
  5. Follow Flee: A Contingent Mobility Strategy for the Spatial Prisoner’s Dilemma

    • Maud D. Gibbons, Colm O’Riordan, Josephine Griffith
    Pages 34-45
  6. Rational Imitation for Robots

    • Dieter Vanderelst, Alan F. T. Winfield
    Pages 55-66
  7. Modular Neural Control for Object Transportation of a Bio-inspired Hexapod Robot

    • Chris Tryk Lund Sørensen, Poramate Manoonpong
    Pages 67-78
  8. Artificial Neural Network Based Compliant Control for Robot Arms

    • Vince Jankovics, Stefan Mátéfi-Tempfli, Poramate Manoonpong
    Pages 91-100
  9. A Landmark Vector Approach Using Gray-Colored Information

    • Changmin Lee, DaeEun Kim
    Pages 138-144
  10. Simulation of an Optional Strategy in the Prisoner’s Dilemma in Spatial and Non-spatial Environments

    • Marcos Cardinot, Maud Gibbons, Colm O’Riordan, Josephine Griffith
    Pages 145-156
  11. A Comparison of Multiobjective Algorithms in Evolving Quadrupedal Gaits

    • Jared M. Moore, Philip K. McKinley
    Pages 157-169
  12. Learning to Switch Between Sensorimotor Primitives Using Multimodal Haptic Signals

    • Zhe Su, Oliver Kroemer, Gerald E. Loeb, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Stefan Schaal
    Pages 170-182
  13. A More Basic Version of Agency? As If!

    • Simon McGregor
    Pages 183-194
  14. A Biologically Inspired Soft Robotic Hand Using Chopsticks for Grasping Tasks

    • Mariya Chepisheva, Utku Culha, Fumiya Iida
    Pages 195-206
  15. Linguistic Primitives: A New Model for Language Development in Robotics

    • Alessio Mauro Franchi, Lorenzo Sernicola, Giuseppina Gini
    Pages 207-218

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About this book

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2016, held in Aberystwyth, UK, in August 2016.


The 31 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. They cover the main areas in animat research, including the animat approach and methodology, perception and motor control, learning and adaptation, evolution, and collective and social behavior.



Editors and Affiliations

  • Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom

    Elio Tuci, Alexandros Giagkos, Myra Wilson

  • University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

    John Hallam

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