From animals to animats 8: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior

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The biannual International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior brings together researchers from ethology, psychology, ecology, artificial intelligence, artificial life, robotics, engineering, and related fields to advance the understanding of behaviors and underlying mechanisms that allow natural and synthetic agents (animats) to adapt and survive in uncertain environments. The work presented focuses on well-defined models -- robotic, computer simulation, and mathematical -- that help to characterize and compare various organizational principles or architectures underlying adaptive behavior in both animals and animats. The proceedings of the eighth conference treat such topics as passive and active perception, navigation and mapping, collective and social behavior, and applied adaptive behavior.

Stefan Schaal is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Neuroscience Program at the University of Southern California.

Auke Jan Ijspeert is SNF Assistant Professor and Head of the Biologically Inspired Robotics Group in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne.

Aude Billard is SNF Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne.

Sethu Vijayakumar is Lecturer and Head of the Statistical Learning and Motor Control Group in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.

John Hallam is Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark and Senior Lecturer in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.

Jean-Arcady Meyer is CNRS Research Director and Head of the AnimatLab in the Department of Computer Science at the Université Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris.

Table of Contents:

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