| Preface | |
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| THE ANIMAT APPROACH TO ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR | |
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| State of the Artificial Rat Psikharpax
David Filliat, Benoit Girard, Agnès Guillot, Mehdi Khamassi, Loic Lachèze and Jean-Arcady Meyer | 3 |
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| Interactions of Environment, Behavior, and Synaptic Patterns in a Neuro-Robotic Model
William H. Alexander and Olaf Sporns | 13 |
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| Comparative Cognitive Robotics: Using Autonomous Agents as Empirical Models of Animal Learning
Roul Sebastian John and Christian W. Werner | 23 |
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| Morphology and Computation
Chandana Paul | 33 |
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| Constructing an Animat Using 505 Sub-minds from 234 Different Authors
Ciarán O'Leary, Mark Humphrys and Ray Walshe | 39 |
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| May We Have Your Attention: Analysis of a Selective Attention Task
Eldan Goldenberg, Jacob Garcowski and Randall D. Beer | 49 |
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| Formalization of Recognition, Affordances and Learning in Isolated or Interacting Animats
Philippe Gausiier, Jean Christophe Baccon, Ken Prepin, Jacqueline Nadel and Laurence Hafemeister | 57 |
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| Gallery Structure Formation in Conelyborus scarabaeoides
Luc Steels | 67 |
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| PERCEPTION | |
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| Towards a Theory of How Bats Navigate through Foliage
Jonas Reijniers and Herbert Peremans | 77 |
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| From Bat Pinnae to Sonar Antennae: Augmented Obliquely Truncated Horns as a Novel Parametric Shape Model
Rolf Müller and John C. T. Hallam | 87 |
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| Evolving Adaptive, High-Dimensional, Camera-Based Speed Sensors
Ralf Salomon | 96 |
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| Adaptive Object Tracking with an Anthropomorphic Robot Head
Hyundo Kim, Boris Lau and Jochen Triesch | 104 |
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| Morphology and Learning -- A Case Study on Whiskers
Miriam Fend, Roland Abt, Marco Diefenbacher, Simon Bovet and Martin Krafft | 114 |
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| Simulating Whisker Sensors -- On the Role of Material Properties for Morphology, Behavior, and Evolution
Simon Bovet, Miriam Fend and Rolf Pfeifer | 122 |
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| Spatiotemporal Processing of Whisker Input Supports Texture Discrimination in a Brain-Based Device
Anil Seth, Jeffrey L. McKinstry, Gerald M. Edelman and Jeffrey L. Krichmar | 130 |
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| A Biomimetic Whisker for Texture Discrimination and Distance Estimation
DaeEun Kim and Ralf Möller | 140 |
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| MOTOR CONTROL | |
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| A Simple, Adaptive Locomotion Toy-System
Jonas Buchli and Auke Jan Ijspeert | 153 |
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| GasNets and Other Evolvable Neural Networks Applied to Bipedal Locomotion
Gary McHale and Phil Husbands | 163 |
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| Adaptive Locomotion in a Complex Environment: Simulation of Stick Insect Gap Crossing Behavior
Bettina Blaesing | 173 |
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| A Simulation Model of the Locomotion Controllers for the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
John Bryden and Netta Cohen | 183 |
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| Planning the Sequencing of Movement Primitives
Marcelo Kallmann, Robert Bargmann and Maja J. Mataric | 193 |
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| Biologically Inspired Adaptive Dynamic Walking of a Quadruped Robot
Hiroshi Kimura, Yasuhiro Fukuoka and Avis H. Cohen | 201 |
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| ACTION SELECTION AND BEHAVIORAL SEQUENCES | |
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| Action Selection and Mental Transformation Based on a Chain of Forward Models
Heiko Hoffmann and Ralf Möller | 213 |
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| Self-Growth of Basic Behaviors in an Action Selection Based Agent
Olivier Buffet, Alain Dutech and Francois Charpillet | 223 |
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| Optimal and Non-Optimal Compromise Strategies in Action Selection
Frederick L. Crabbe | 233 |
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| Using Hormonal Feedback to Modulate Action Selection in a Competitive Scenario
Orlando Avila-Garcia and Lola Canamero | 243 |
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| NAVIGATION | |
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| A Spiking Neuron Model of Head-Direction Cells for Robot Orientation
Thomas Degris, Loic Lachèze, Christian Boucheny and Angelo Arleo | 255 |
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| Navigation and Cognitive Map Formation Using Aperiodic Neurodynamics
Derek Harter and Robert Kozma | 264 |
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| Adaptive Motor Primitive and Sequence Formation in a Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Network
Rainer W. Paine and Jun Tani | 274 |
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| LEARNING AND ADAPTATION | |
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| Competitive-Cooperative-Concurrent Reinforcement Learning with Importance Sampling
Eiji Uchibe and Kenji Doya | 287 |
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| Estimating Future Reward in Reinforcement Learning Animats Using Associative Learning
George D. Konidaris and Gillian Hayes | 297 |
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| Hebbian Reinforcement Learning in a Modular Dynamic Network
Emmanuel Daucé | 305 |
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| Learning Human-like Movement Behavior for Computer Games
Christian Thurau, Christian Bauckage and Gerhard Sagerer | 315 |
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| On Ashby's Homeostat: A Formal Model of Adaptive Regulation
J. Michael Herrmann, Michael Holicki and Ralf Der | 324 |
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| Toward a Dynamical Systems Analysis of Neuromodulation
Chris Buckley, Seth Bullock and Netta Cohen | 334 |
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| Homeostatic Plasticity in Recurrent Neural Networks
Hywel Williams | 344 |
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| EVOLUTION | |
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| Evolving Walking: The Anatomy of an Evolutionary Search
Chad W. Seys and Randall D. Beer | 357 |
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| The Force Model: Concept, Behavior, Interpretation
Ralf Salomon | 364 |
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| Evolving a Neurocontroller through a Process of Embryogeny
Diego Federici | 373 |
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| COLLECTIVE AND SOCIAL BEHAVIORS | |
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| Coordination and Behavior Integration in Cooperating Simulated Robots
Gianluca Baldassarre, Domenico Parisi and Stefano Nolfi | 385 |
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| Effects of the Topology of Social Networks on Information Transmission
Jason Nobel, Simon Davy and Daniel W. Franks | 395 |
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| Evolving Functional Self-Assembling in a Swarm of Autonomous Robots
Vito Trianni, Elio Tuci and Marco Dorigo | 405 |
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| How Can a Life-like Agent Evoke Its Emotions for Users? -- A Method for Inducing Users' Natural Behaviors to Establish "Mutual Adaptation"
Takanorio Komatsu | 415 |
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| Hamelin: A Model for Collective Adaptation Based on Internal Stimuli
Vincent Thomas, Christine Bourjot, Vincent Chevrier and Didier Desor | 425 |
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| BASC, a Bottom-up Approach to Automated Design of Spatial Coordination
Fabien Flacher and Olivier Sigaud | 435 |
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| The More Radical, the Better: Investigating the Utility of Aggression in the Competition among Different Agent Kinds
Matthias Scheutz and Paul Schermerhorn | 445 |
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| Imitation in Embodied Agents Results in Self-organization of Behavior
Bart Jansen, Tom ten Thij, Tony Belpaeme, Bart De Vylder and Bart de Boer | 455 |
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| ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR IN LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION | |
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| A Connectionist Approach to Learn Association between Sentences and Behavioral Patterns of a Robot
Yuuya Sugita and Jun Tani | 467 |
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| Imitation Is Not Enough for Lexicon Learning
Jason Fleischer and Jonathan Shapiro | 477 |
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| The Sensorimotor Bases of Linguistic Structure: Experiments with Grounded Adaptive Agents
Angelo Cangelosi | 487 |
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| APPLIED ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR | |
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| Evolving Opponents for Interesting Interactive Computer Games
Georgios N. Yannakakis and John Hallam | 499 |
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| Evolvable Recovery Membranes in Self-monitoring Aerospace Vehicles
Peter Wang and Mikhail Prokopenko | 509 |
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| Learning to Behave: Adaptive Behavior for Planetary Surface Rovers
Terry Huntsberger and Hrand Aghazarian | 519 |
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| Author Index | 529 |
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