SAB 2006: Rome, Italy

The Animat Approach to Adaptive Behaviour

• Carlos Herrera Pérez, David C. Moffat, Tom Ziemke:
  Emotions as a Bridge to the Environment: On the Role of Body in Organisms and Robots. 3-16
  
• Daniele Caligiore, Massimo Tria, Domenico Parisi:
  Some Adaptive Advantages of the Ability to Make Predictions. 17-28
  

Perception and Motor Control

• Xing Zhang, Mark H. Lee:
  Early Perceptual and Cognitive Development in Robot Vision. 31-39
  
• Emily Baird, Mandyam V. Srinivasan, Shao-Wu Zhang, Richard Lamont, Ann Cowling:
  Visual Control of Flight Speed and Height in the Honeybee. 40-51
  
• Gerald Fritz, Lucas Paletta, Manish Kumar, Georg Dorffner, Ralph Breithaupt, Erich Rome:
  Visual Learning of Affordance Based Cues. 52-64
  
• Lei Zhang, John Hallam, Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard:
  Modelling the Peripheral Auditory System of Lizards. 65-76
  
• Benjamin Mitchinson, Martin J. Pearson, Chris Melhuish, Tony J. Prescott:
  A Model of Sensorimotor Coordination in the Rat Whisker System. 77-88
  
• Thomas Buehrmann, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo:
  Biological Actuators Are Not Just Springs. 89-100
  
• Kojiro Matsushita, Hiroshi Yokoi, Tamio Arai:
  Investigation of Reality Constraints: Morphology and Controller of Two-Link Legged Locomotors for Dynamically Stable Locomotion. 101-112
  
• Mariagiovanna Mazzapioda, Stefano Nolfi:
  Synchronization and Gait Adaptation in Evolving Hexapod Robots. 113-125
  
• Yury F. Golubev, Victor V. Korianov:
  Computer Simulation of a Climbing Insectomorphic Robot. 126-137
  
• Giorgio Brambilla, Jonas Buchli, Auke Jan Ijspeert:
  Adaptive Four Legged Locomotion Control Based on Nonlinear Dynamical Systems. 138-149
  
• Hugo Rosano, Barbara Webb:
  The Control of Turning in Real and Simulated Stick Insects. 150-161
  
• Guangming Wang, Lincheng Shen, Tianjiang Hu:
  Kinematic Modeling and Dynamic Analysis of the Long-Based Undulation Fin of Gymnarchus Niloticus. 162-173
  
• Shunsuke Iida, Toshiyuki Kondo, Koji Ito:
  An Environmental Adaptation Mechanism for a Biped Walking Robot Control Based on Elicitation of Sensorimotor Constraints. 174-184
  
• Kuniaki Noda, Masato Ito, Yukiko Hoshino, Jun Tani:
  Dynamic Generation and Switching of Object Handling Behaviors by a Humanoid Robot Using a Recurrent Neural Network Model. 185-196
  

Action Selection and Behavioral Sequences

• Mark D. Humphries, Tony J. Prescott:
  Distributed Action Selection by a Brainstem Neural Substrate: An Embodied Evaluation. 199-210
  
• Giovanni Pezzulo, Gianguglielmo Calvi:
  A Schema Based Model of the Praying Mantis. 211-223
  
• Jean-David Boucher, Peter Ford Dominey:
  Perceptual-Motor Sequence Learning Via Human-Robot Interaction. 224-235
  

Navigation and Internal World Models

• Michael Weir, Anthony Buck, Jon Lewis:
  POTBUG: A Mind's Eye Approach to Providing BUG-Like Guarantees for Adaptive Obstacle Navigation Using Dynamic Potential Fields. 239-250
  
• Lincoln Smith, Andrew Philippides, Phil Husbands:
  Navigation in Large-Scale Environments Using an Augmented Model of Visual Homing. 251-262
  
• Mototaka Suzuki, Dario Floreano:
  Evolutionary Active Vision Toward Three Dimensional Landmark-Navigation. 263-273
  
• John Pisokas:
  Global Navigation Through Local Reference Frames. 274-285
  
• Nicolas Cuperlier, Mathias Quoy, Christophe Giovannangeli, Philippe Gaussier, Philippe Laroque:
  Transition Cells for Navigation and Planning in an Unknown Environment. 286-297
  
• Richard T. Vaughan, Mauricio Zuluaga:
  Use Your Illusion: Sensorimotor Self-simulation Allows Complex Agents to Plan with Incomplete Self-knowledge. 298-309
  

Learning and Adaptation

• Adedoyin Maria Thompson, Bernd Porr, Florentin Wörgötter:
  Stabilising Hebbian Learning with a Third Factor in a Food Retrieval Task. 313-322
  
• Daniel Bush, Andrew Philippides, Phil Husbands, Michael O'Shea:
  Investigating STDP and LTP in a Spiking Neural Network. 323-334
  
• Hédi Soula, Guillaume Beslon:
  Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity Learning for Visual-Based Obstacles Avoidance. 335-345
  
• George Konidaris, Andrew G. Barto:
  An Adaptive Robot Motivational System. 346-356
  
• Andrea Bonarini, Alessandro Lazaric, Marcello Restelli:
  Incremental Skill Acquisition for Self-motivated Learning Animats. 357-368
  
• Yu-Han Chang, Paul R. Cohen, Clayton T. Morrison, Robert St. Amant, Carole R. Beal:
  Piagetian Adaptation Meets Image Schemas: The Jean System. 369-380
  
• Dimitri Ognibene, Angelo Rega, Gianluca Baldassarre:
  A Model of Reaching that Integrates Reinforcement Learning and Population Encoding of Postures. 381-393
  
• Mehdi Khamassi, Louis-Emmanuel Martinet, Agnès Guillot:
  Combining Self-organizing Maps with Mixtures of Experts: Application to an Actor-Critic Model of Reinforcement Learning in the Basal Ganglia. 394-405
  
• Ralf Der, Georg Martius:
  From Motor Babbling to Purposive Actions: Emerging Self-exploration in a Dynamical Systems Approach to Early Robot Development. 406-421
  
• Anna Balkenius, Almut Kelber, Christian Balkenius:
  Modelling Multi-modal Learning in a Hawkmoth. 422-433
  
• Francisco Bellas, Andrés Faiña, Alberto Prieto, Richard J. Duro:
  Adaptive Learning Application of the MDB Evolutionary Cognitive Architecture in Physical Agents. 434-445
  

Evolution

• Diego Federici, Tom Ziemke:
  Why Are Evolved Developing Organisms Also Fault-Tolerant? 449-460
  
• Sven Magg, Andrew Philippides:
  GasNets and CTRNNs - A Comparison in Terms of Evolvability. 461-472
  
• Anders Lyhne Christensen, Marco Dorigo:
  Incremental Evolution of Robot Controllers for a Highly Integrated Task. 473-484
  
• Marco Remondino, Alessandro Cappellini:
  An Evolutionary Selection Model Based on a Biological Phenomenon: The Periodical Magicicadas. 485-497
  
• Kyran Dale:
  Evolving Reaction-Diffusion Controllers for Minimally Cognitive Animats. 498-509
  
• Gentaro Morimoto, Takashi Ikegami:
  Emergence of Coherent Coordinated Behavior in a Network of Homogeneous Active Elements. 510-521
  
• Thomas Hope, Ivilin Stoianov, Marco Zorzi:
  Searching for Emergent Representations in Evolved Dynamical Systems. 522-533
  
• Martin Hülse, Frank Pasemann:
  Modular Design of Irreducible Systems. 534-545
  
• Peter Fine, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Andrew Philippides:
  Spatially Constrained Networks and the Evolution of Modular Control Systems. 546-557
  
• Mikhail Prokopenko, Vadim Gerasimov, Ivan Tanev:
  Evolving Spatiotemporal Coordination in a Modular Robotic System. 558-569
  
• Razvan V. Florian:
  Spiking Neural Controllers for Pushing Objects Around. 570-581
  
• Michail Maniadakis, Panos E. Trahanias:
  Hierarchical Cooperative CoEvolution Facilitates the Redesign of Agent-Based Systems. 582-593
  
• Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim:
  Bubbleworld.Evo: Artificial Evolution of Behavioral Decisions in a Simulated Predator-Prey Ecosystem. 594-605
  
• Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Stéphane Doncieux, Jean-Arcady Meyer:
  Incremental Evolution of Target-Following Neuro-controllers for Flapping-Wing Animats. 606-618
  
• Ivan Tanev, Michal Joachimczak, Katsunori Shimohara:
  Evolution and Adaptation of an Agent Driving a Scale Model of a Car with Obstacle Avoidance Capabilities. 619-630
  
• Eleonora Bilotta, Giuseppe Cutrí, Pietro Pantano:
  Evolving Robot's Behavior by Using CNNs. 631-639
  

Collective and Social Behaviours

• Hiroyuki Ishii, Motonori Ogura, Shunji Kurisu, Atsushi Komura, Atsuo Takanishi, Naritoshi Iida, Hiroshi Kimura:
  Experimental Study on Task Teaching to Real Rats Through Interaction with a Robotic Rat. 643-654
  
• Bernard Gorman, Christian Thurau, Christian Bauckhage, Mark Humphrys:
  Believability Testing and Bayesian Imitation in Interactive Computer Games. 655-666
  
• Andaç T. Samiloglu, Veysel Gazi, A. Bugra Koku:
  Asynchronous Cyclic Pursuit. 667-678
  
• Elio Tuci, Christos Ampatzis, Federico Vicentini, Marco Dorigo:
  Evolved Homogeneous Neuro-controllers for Robots with Different Sensory Capabilities: Coordinated Motion and Cooperation. 679-690
  
• Salvador Dominguez, Eduardo Zalama Casanova, Jaime Gómez García-Bermejo, Jaime Pulido:
  Robot Learning in a Social Robot. 691-702
  
• Grégory Sempo, Stéphanie Depickère, Jean-Marc Amé, Claire Detrain, José Halloy, Jean-Louis Deneubourg:
  Integration of an Autonomous Artificial Agent in an Insect Society: Experimental Validation. 703-712
  
• Jean-Marc Amé, Jesus Millor, José Halloy, Grégory Sempo, Jean-Louis Deneubourg:
  Collective Decision-Making Based on Individual Discrimination Capability in Pre-social Insects. 713-724
  
• Ronald Thenius, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim:
  Economic Optimisation in Honeybees: Adaptive Behaviour of a Superorganism. 725-737
  
• Paul Vogt:
  Cumulative Cultural Evolution: Can We Ever Learn More? 738-749
  
• Elske van der Vaart, Bart de Boer, Albert Hankel, Bart Verheij:
  Agents Adopting Agriculture: Modeling the Agricultural Transition. 750-761
  

Adaptive Behavior in Language and Communication

• Samarth Swarup, Les Gasser:
  Noisy Preferential Attachment and Language Evolution. 765-776
  
• Steffen Wischmann, Frank Pasemann:
  The Emergence of Communication by Evolving Dynamical Systems. 777-788
  
• Davide Marocco, Stefano Nolfi:
  Origins of Communication in Evolving Robots. 789-803
  
• Kiran Lakkaraju, Les Gasser:
  The Complexity of Finding an Optimal Policy for Language Convergence. 804-815
  

Applied Adaptive Behavior

• Pierre Roduit, Alcherio Martinoli, Jacques Jacot:
  Behavioral Analysis of Mobile Robot Trajectories Using a Point Distribution Model. 819-830
  
• Louis Hugues, Nicolas Bredeche:
  Simbad: An Autonomous Robot Simulation Package for Education and Research. 831-842
  
• Ulrich Nehmzow, Otar Akanyeti, Roberto Iglesias, Theocharis Kyriacou, Stephen A. Billings:
  Comparing Robot Controllers Through System Identification. 843-854
  
• Eduardo Sebastián:
  Adaptive Fuzzy Sliding Mode Controller for the Snorkel Underwater Vehicle. 855-866