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

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Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Emotions as a Bridge to the Environment: On the Role of Body in Organisms and Robots....Pages 3-16
Some Adaptive Advantages of the Ability to Make Predictions....Pages 17-28
Front Matter....Pages 29-29
Early Perceptual and Cognitive Development in Robot Vision....Pages 31-39
Visual Control of Flight Speed and Height in the Honeybee....Pages 40-51
Visual Learning of Affordance Based Cues....Pages 52-64
Modelling the Peripheral Auditory System of Lizards....Pages 65-76
A Model of Sensorimotor Coordination in the Rat Whisker System....Pages 77-88
Biological Actuators Are Not Just Springs....Pages 89-100
Investigation of Reality Constraints: Morphology and Controller of Two-Link Legged Locomotors for Dynamically Stable Locomotion....Pages 101-112
Synchronization and Gait Adaptation in Evolving Hexapod Robots....Pages 113-125
Computer Simulation of a Climbing Insectomorphic Robot....Pages 126-137
Adaptive Four Legged Locomotion Control Based on Nonlinear Dynamical Systems....Pages 138-149
The Control of Turning in Real and Simulated Stick Insects....Pages 150-161
Kinematic Modeling and Dynamic Analysis of the Long-Based Undulation Fin of Gymnarchus Niloticus ....Pages 162-173
An Environmental Adaptation Mechanism for a Biped Walking Robot Control Based on Elicitation of Sensorimotor Constraints....Pages 174-184
Dynamic Generation and Switching of Object Handling Behaviors by a Humanoid Robot Using a Recurrent Neural Network Model....Pages 185-196
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Distributed Action Selection by a Brainstem Neural Substrate: An Embodied Evaluation....Pages 199-210
A Schema Based Model of the Praying Mantis....Pages 211-223
Perceptual-Motor Sequence Learning Via Human-Robot Interaction....Pages 224-235
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POTBUG: A Mind’s Eye Approach to Providing BUG-Like Guarantees for Adaptive Obstacle Navigation Using Dynamic Potential Fields....Pages 239-250
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Navigation in Large-Scale Environments Using an Augmented Model of Visual Homing....Pages 251-262
Evolutionary Active Vision Toward Three Dimensional Landmark-Navigation....Pages 263-273
Global Navigation Through Local Reference Frames....Pages 274-285
Transition Cells for Navigation and Planning in an Unknown Environment....Pages 286-297
Use Your Illusion: Sensorimotor Self-simulation Allows Complex Agents to Plan with Incomplete Self-knowledge....Pages 298-309
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Stabilising Hebbian Learning with a Third Factor in a Food Retrieval Task....Pages 313-322
Investigating STDP and LTP in a Spiking Neural Network....Pages 323-334
Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity Learning for Visual-Based Obstacles Avoidance....Pages 335-345
An Adaptive Robot Motivational System....Pages 346-356
Incremental Skill Acquisition for Self-motivated Learning Animats....Pages 357-368
Piagetian Adaptation Meets Image Schemas: The Jean System....Pages 369-380
A Model of Reaching that Integrates Reinforcement Learning and Population Encoding of Postures....Pages 381-393
Combining Self-organizing Maps with Mixtures of Experts: Application to an Actor-Critic Model of Reinforcement Learning in the Basal Ganglia....Pages 394-405
From Motor Babbling to Purposive Actions: Emerging Self-exploration in a Dynamical Systems Approach to Early Robot Development....Pages 406-421
Modelling Multi-modal Learning in a Hawkmoth....Pages 422-433
Adaptive Learning Application of the MDB Evolutionary Cognitive Architecture in Physical Agents....Pages 434-445
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Why Are Evolved Developing Organisms Also Fault-Tolerant?....Pages 449-460
GasNets and CTRNNs – A Comparison in Terms of Evolvability....Pages 461-472
Incremental Evolution of Robot Controllers for a Highly Integrated Task....Pages 473-484
An Evolutionary Selection Model Based on a Biological Phenomenon: The Periodical Magicicadas....Pages 485-497
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Evolving Reaction-Diffusion Controllers for Minimally Cognitive Animats....Pages 498-509
Emergence of Coherent Coordinated Behavior in a Network of Homogeneous Active Elements....Pages 510-521
Searching for Emergent Representations in Evolved Dynamical Systems....Pages 522-533
Modular Design of Irreducible Systems....Pages 534-545
Spatially Constrained Networks and the Evolution of Modular Control Systems....Pages 546-557
Evolving Spatiotemporal Coordination in a Modular Robotic System....Pages 558-569
Spiking Neural Controllers for Pushing Objects Around....Pages 570-581
Hierarchical Cooperative CoEvolution Facilitates the Redesign of Agent-Based Systems....Pages 582-593
Bubbleworld.Evo: Artificial Evolution of Behavioral Decisions in a Simulated Predator-Prey Ecosystem....Pages 594-605
Incremental Evolution of Target-Following Neuro-controllers for Flapping-Wing Animats....Pages 606-618
Evolution and Adaptation of an Agent Driving a Scale Model of a Car with Obstacle Avoidance Capabilities....Pages 619-630
Evolving Robot’s Behavior by Using CNNs....Pages 631-639
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Experimental Study on Task Teaching to Real Rats Through Interaction with a Robotic Rat....Pages 643-654
Believability Testing and Bayesian Imitation in Interactive Computer Games....Pages 655-666
Asynchronous Cyclic Pursuit....Pages 667-678
Evolved Homogeneous Neuro-controllers for Robots with Different Sensory Capabilities: Coordinated Motion and Cooperation....Pages 679-690
Robot Learning in a Social Robot....Pages 691-702
Integration of an Autonomous Artificial Agent in an Insect Society: Experimental Validation....Pages 703-712
Collective Decision-Making Based on Individual Discrimination Capability in Pre-social Insects....Pages 713-724
Economic Optimisation in Honeybees: Adaptive Behaviour of a Superorganism....Pages 725-737
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Cumulative Cultural Evolution: Can We Ever Learn More?....Pages 738-749
Agents Adopting Agriculture:Modeling the Agricultural Transition....Pages 750-761
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Noisy Preferential Attachment and Language Evolution....Pages 765-776
The Emergence of Communication by Evolving Dynamical Systems....Pages 777-788
Origins of Communication in Evolving Robots....Pages 789-803
The Complexity of Finding an Optimal Policy for Language Convergence....Pages 804-815
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Behavioral Analysis of Mobile Robot Trajectories Using a Point Distribution Model....Pages 819-830
Simbad: An Autonomous Robot Simulation Package for Education and Research....Pages 831-842
Comparing Robot Controllers Through System Identification....Pages 843-854
Adaptive Fuzzy Sliding Mode Controller for the Snorkel Underwater Vehicle....Pages 855-866
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