From Animals to Animats 12

1. Front Matter

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2. Animat Approach and Methodology

   1. Natural and Artificial Systems: Compare, Model or Engineer?

      • Kelly Vassie, Giuseppe Morlino

      Pages 1-11

   2. LocoKit: A Robot Construction Kit for Studying and Developing Functional Morphologies

      • Jørgen Christian Larsen, David Brandt, Kasper Stoy

      Pages 12-22

   3. An Introduction to the Analysis of Braitenberg Vehicles 2 and 3 Using Phase Plane Portrait

      • Iñaki Rañó

      Pages 23-32

3. Perception and Motor Control

   1. Synthesis and Adaptation of Effective Motor Synergies for the Solution of Reaching Tasks

      • Cristiano Alessandro, Juan Pablo Carbajal, Andrea d’Avella

      Pages 33-43

   2. Gaze Allocation Analysis for a Visually Guided Manipulation Task

      • Jose Nunez-Varela, Balaraman Ravindran, Jeremy L. Wyatt

      Pages 44-53

   3. Using Sensorimotor Contingencies for Terrain Discrimination and Adaptive Walking Behavior in the Quadruped Robot Puppy

      • Matej Hoffmann, Nico M. Schmidt, Rolf Pfeifer, Andreas K. Engel, Alexander Maye

      Pages 54-64

   4. How Walking Influences the Development of Absolute Distance Perception

      • Beata J. Grzyb, Angel P. del Pobil, Linda B. Smith

      Pages 65-74

   5. Modelling Interaction in Multi-modal Affordance Processing with Neural Dynamics

      • Boris Durán, Serge Thill

      Pages 75-84

   6. A Bio-inspired Model Reliably Predicts the Collision of Approaching Objects under Different Light Conditions

      • Ana Carolina Silva, Cristina Peixoto dos Santos

      Pages 85-95

   7. Synthesising a Motor-Primitive Inspired Control Architecture for Redundant Compliant Robots

      • Naveen Kuppuswamy, Hugo Gravato Marques, Helmut Hauser

      Pages 96-105

   8. Using Sensorimotor Contingencies for Prediction and Action Planning

      • Alexander Maye, Andreas K. Engel

      Pages 106-116

   9. A Bio-inspired Control System for a Wearable Human-Machine Interface

      • Michele Folgheraiter, Mathias Jordan, Jan Albiez, Frank Kirchner

      Pages 117-126

   10. A Finite Element Method of Electric Image in Weakly Electric Fish

       • Sejoon Ahn, DaeEun Kim

       Pages 127-135

   11. Multimodal Integration of Visual Place Cells and Grid Cells for Navigation Tasks of a Real Robot

       • Adrien Jauffret, Nicolas Cuperlier, Philippe Gaussier, Philippe Tarroux

       Pages 136-145

   12. Towards a Neural Hierarchy of Time Scales for Motor Control

       • Tim Waegeman, Francis Wyffels, Benjamin Schrauwen

       Pages 146-155

   13. Modelling Walking Behaviors Based on CPGs: A Simplified Bio-inspired Architecture

       • Cai Li, Robert Lowe, Tom Ziemke

       Pages 156-166

   14. Plastic Representation of the Reachable Space for a Humanoid Robot

       • Marco Antonelli, Beata J. Grzyb, Vicente Castelló, Angel P. del Pobil

       Pages 167-176

4. Evolution

   1. Towards Behavioral Consistency in Neuroevolution

      • Charles Ollion, Stéphane Doncieux

      Pages 177-186

   2. Evolving Variants of Neuro-Control Using Constraint Masks

      • Christian Rempis, Frank Pasemann

      Pages 187-197

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, SAB 2012, held in Odense, Denmark, in August 2012. The 22 full papers as well as 22 poster papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: animat approach and methodology; perception and motor control; evolution; learning and adaptation, and collective and social behaviour.

• artificial life
• bio-inspired robotics
• neural networks
• self-organization
• swarm robotics
• algorithm analysis and problem complexity

• Informatics Research Centre, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden

  Tom Ziemke

• Lund University, Lund, Sweden

  Christian Balkenius

• Mærsk McKinney Møller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

  John Hallam

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