From Animals to Animats 9 : 9th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2006, Rome, Italy, September 25-29, 2006, Proceedings

The Animat Approach to Adaptive Behaviour.- Emotions as a Bridge to the Environment: On the Role of Body in Organisms and Robots.- Some Adaptive Advantages of the Ability to Make Predictions.- Perception and Motor Control.- Early Perceptual and Cognitive Development in Robot Vision.- Visual Control of Flight Speed and Height in the Honeybee.- Visual Learning of Affordance Based Cues.- Modelling the Peripheral Auditory System of Lizards.- A Model of Sensorimotor Coordination in the Rat Whisker System.- Biological Actuators Are Not Just Springs.- Investigation of Reality Constraints: Morphology and Controller of Two-Link Legged Locomotors for Dynamically Stable Locomotion.- Synchronization and Gait Adaptation in Evolving Hexapod Robots.- Computer Simulation of a Climbing Insectomorphic Robot.- Adaptive Four Legged Locomotion Control Based on Nonlinear Dynamical Systems.- The Control of Turning in Real and Simulated Stick Insects.- Kinematic Modeling and Dynamic Analysis of the Long-Based Undulation Fin of Gymnarchus Niloticus.- An Environmental Adaptation Mechanism for a Biped Walking Robot Control Based on Elicitation of Sensorimotor Constraints.- Dynamic Generation and Switching of Object Handling Behaviors by a Humanoid Robot Using a Recurrent Neural Network Model.- Action Selection and Behavioral Sequences.- Distributed Action Selection by a Brainstem Neural Substrate: An Embodied Evaluation.- A Schema Based Model of the Praying Mantis.- Perceptual-Motor Sequence Learning Via Human-Robot Interaction.- Navigation and Internal World Models.- POTBUG: A Mind’s Eye Approach to Providing BUG-Like Guarantees for Adaptive Obstacle Navigation Using Dynamic Potential Fields.- Navigation in Large-Scale Environments Using an Augmented Model of Visual Homing.- Evolutionary Active Vision Toward Three Dimensional Landmark-Navigation.- Global Navigation Through Local Reference Frames.- Transition Cells for Navigation and Planning in an Unknown Environment.- Use Your Illusion: Sensorimotor Self-simulation Allows Complex Agents to Plan with Incomplete Self-knowledge.- Learning and Adaptation.- Stabilising Hebbian Learning with a Third Factor in a Food Retrieval Task.- Investigating STDP and LTP in a Spiking Neural Network.- Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity Learning for Visual-Based Obstacles Avoidance.- An Adaptive Robot Motivational System.- Incremental Skill Acquisition for Self-motivated Learning Animats.- Piagetian Adaptation Meets Image Schemas: The Jean System.- A Model of Reaching that Integrates Reinforcement Learning and Population Encoding of Postures.- Combining Self-organizing Maps with Mixtures of Experts: Application to an Actor-Critic Model of Reinforcement Learning in the Basal Ganglia.- From Motor Babbling to Purposive Actions: Emerging Self-exploration in a Dynamical Systems Approach to Early Robot Development.- Modelling Multi-modal Learning in a Hawkmoth.- Adaptive Learning Application of the MDB Evolutionary Cognitive Architecture in Physical Agents.- Evolution.- Why Are Evolved Developing Organisms Also Fault-Tolerant?.- GasNets and CTRNNs – A Comparison in Terms of Evolvability.- Incremental Evolution of Robot Controllers for a Highly Integrated Task.- An Evolutionary Selection Model Based on a Biological Phenomenon: The Periodical Magicicadas.- Evolving Reaction-Diffusion Controllers for Minimally Cognitive Animats.- Emergence of Coherent Coordinated Behavior in a Network of Homogeneous Active Elements.- Searching for Emergent Representations in Evolved Dynamical Systems.- Modular Design of Irreducible Systems.- Spatially Constrained Networks and the Evolution of Modular Control Systems.- Evolving Spatiotemporal Coordination in a Modular Robotic System.- Spiking Neural Controllers for Pushing Objects Around.- Hierarchical Cooperative CoEvolution Facilitates the Redesign of Agent-Based Systems.- Bubbleworld.Evo: Artificial Evolution of Behavioral Decisions in a Simulated Predator-Prey Ecosystem.- Incremental Evolution of Target-Following Neuro-controllers for Flapping-Wing Animats.- Evolution and Adaptation of an Agent Driving a Scale Model of a Car with Obstacle Avoidance Capabilities.- Evolving Robot’s Behavior by Using CNNs.- Collective and Social Behaviours.- Experimental Study on Task Teaching to Real Rats Through Interaction with a Robotic Rat.- Believability Testing and Bayesian Imitation in Interactive Computer Games.- Asynchronous Cyclic Pursuit.- Evolved Homogeneous Neuro-controllers for Robots with Different Sensory Capabilities: Coordinated Motion and Cooperation.- Robot Learning in a Social Robot.- Integration of an Autonomous Artificial Agent in an Insect Society: Experimental Validation.- Collective Decision-Making Based on Individual Discrimination Capability in Pre-social Insects.- Economic Optimisation in Honeybees: Adaptive Behaviour of a Superorganism.- Cumulative Cultural Evolution: Can We Ever Learn More?.- Agents Adopting Agriculture:Modeling the Agricultural Transition.- Adaptive Behavior in Language and Communication.- Noisy Preferential Attachment and Language Evolution.- The Emergence of Communication by Evolving Dynamical Systems.- Origins of Communication in Evolving Robots.- The Complexity of Finding an Optimal Policy for Language Convergence.- Applied Adaptive Behavior.- Behavioral Analysis of Mobile Robot Trajectories Using a Point Distribution Model.- Simbad: An Autonomous Robot Simulation Package for Education and Research.- Comparing Robot Controllers Through System Identification.- Adaptive Fuzzy Sliding Mode Controller for the Snorkel Underwater Vehicle.