From Animals to Animats 9: 9th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2006, Rome, Italy, September 25-29, 2006, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (4095)) (No. 9)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2006, held in Rome, Italy in September 2006. The 35 revised full papers and 35 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 140 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on the animat approach to adaptive behaviour, perception and motor control, action selection and behavioral sequences, navigation and internal world models, learning and adaptation, evolution, collective and social behaviours, adaptive behavior in language and communication, and applied adaptive behavior. Front Matter....Pages - 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 Front Matter....Pages 197-197 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 Front Matter....Pages 237-237 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 Front Matter....Pages 311-311 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 Front Matter....Pages 447-447 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 Front Matter....Pages 447-447 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 Front Matter....Pages 641-641 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 Front Matter....Pages 641-641 Cumulative Cultural Evolution: Can We Ever Learn More?....Pages 738-749 Agents Adopting Agriculture:Modeling the Agricultural Transition....Pages 750-761 Front Matter....Pages 763-763 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 Front Matter....Pages 817-817 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 Back Matter....Pages - This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2006. The 35 revised full papers and 35 revised poster papers presented are organized in topical sections on the animat approach to adaptive behaviour, perception and motor control, action selection and behavioral sequences, navigation and internal world models, learning and adaptation, evolution, collective and social behaviours, applied adaptive behavior and more.