SAB 2006: Accepted Submissions

Preface and Index (pdf)

A Model of Reaching that Integrates Continuous Reinforcement Learning, Accumulator Models, and Direct Inverse Modeling   Dimitri Ognibene, Angelo Rega and Gianluca Baldassarre

A Model of Sensorimotor coordination in the Rat Whisker System   Ben Mitchinson, Martin Pearson, Chris Melhuish and Tony J. Prescott

A Schema Based Model of the Praying Mantis   Giovanni Pezzulo and Gianguglielmo Calvi

Adaptive Four Legged Locomotion Control Based on Nonlinear Dynamical Systems   Giorgio Brambilla, Jonas Buchli and Auke Ijspeert

Adaptive Fuzzy Sliding Mode Controller for the Snorkel Underwater Vehicle   Eduardo Sebastián

Adaptive Learning Application of the MDB Evolutionary Cognitive Architecture in Physical Agents   Francisco Bellas, Andres Faina, Abraham Prieto and Richard Duro

Agents Adopting Agriculture: Modeling the Agricultural Transition   Elske van der Vaart, Bart de Boer, Albert Hankel and Bart Verheij

An Adaptive Robot Motivational System   George Konidaris and Andrew Barto

An environmental adaptation mechanism for a biped walking robot control based on elicitation of sensorimotor constraints   Shunsuke Iida, Toshiyuki Kondo and Koji Ito

An evolutionary Selection Model Based on a Biological Phenomenon: the Periodical Magicicadas   Marco Remondino and Alessandro Cappellini

Asynchronous Cyclic Pursuit   Andac Tore Samiloglu, Veysel Gazi and Bugra Koku

Behavioral Analysis of Mobile Robot Trajectories using a Point Distribution Model   Pierre Roduit, Alcherio Martinoli and Jacques Jacot

Believability Testing and Bayesian Imitation in Interactive Computer Games   Bernard Gorman, Christian Thurau, Christian Bauckhage and Mark Humphrys

Biological Actuators are not just Springs - Investigating Muscle Dynamics and Control Signals   Thomas Buehrmann and Ezequiel Di Paolo

Bubbleworld.evo: Artificial evolution of behavioral decisions in a simulated predator-prey ecosystem.   Thomas Schmickl and Karl Crailsheim

Collective decision-making based on individual discrimination capability in pre-social insects   Jean-Marc Amé, Jesus Millor, José Halloy and Jean-Louis Deneubourg

Combining self-organizing maps with mixtures of experts: Application to an Actor-critic model of reinforcement learning in the Basal Ganglia   Mehdi Khamassi, Louis-Emmanuel Martinet and Agnès Guillot

Comparing Robot Controllers Through System Identification   Ulrich Nehmzow, Otar Akanyeti, Roberto Iglesias Rodriguez, Theocharis Kyriacou and Stephen Billings

Computer Simulation of a Climbing Insectomorphic Robot   Yury Golubev and Victor Korianov

Cumulative cultural evolution: Can we ever learn more?   Paul Vogt

Distributed action selection by a brainstem neural substrate: an embodied evaluation   Mark Humphries and Tony Prescott

Dynamic Generation and Switching of Object Handling Behaviors by a Humanoid Robot Using a Recurrent Neural Network Model   Kuniaki Noda, Masato Ito, Yukiko Hoshino and Jun Tani

Early Perceptual and Cognitive Development in Robot Vision   Xing Zhang and Mark H. Lee

Economic optimisation in honeybees: adaptive behaviour of a superorganism   Ronald Thenuis, Thomas Schmickl and Karl Crailsheim

Embodied Learning: Investigating Synaptic Plasticity in a spiking neural network   Dan Bush

Emergence of Coherent Coordinated Behavior in a Network of Homogeneous Active Elements   Gentaro Morimoto and Takashi Ikegami

Emotions as a bridge to the environment: the role of body in organisms and robots.   Carlos Herrera Pérez, David C. Moffat and Tom Ziemke

Evolution and Adaptation of an Agent Driving a Scale Model of a Car with Obstacle Avoidance Capabilities   Ivan Tanev, Michal Joachimczak and Katsunori Shimohara

Evolutionary Active Vision for Three Dimensional Landmark Navigation   Mototaka Suzuki and Dario Floreano

Evolved homogeneous neuro-controllers for robots with different sensory capabilities: coordinated motion and cooperation   Elio Tuci, Christos Ampatzis, Federico Vicentini and Marco Dorigo

Evolving Reaction-diffusion Controllers for Minimally Cognitive Animats   Kyran Dale

Evolving robot's behavior by using CNNs   Eleonora Bilotta, Giuseppe Cutri' and Pietro Pantano

Evolving Spatiotemporal Coordination in a Modular Robotic System   Mikhail Prokopenko, Vadim Gerasimov and Ivan Tanev

Experimental Study on Task Teaching to Real Rats through Interaction with a Robotic Rat   Hiroyuki Ishii, Motonori Ogura, Shunji Kurisu, Atsushi Komura, Atsuo Takanishi, Naritoshi Iida and Hiroshi Kimura

From Motor Babbling to Purposive Actions: Emerging Self-exploration in a Dynamical Systems Approach to Early Robot Development   Ralf Der and Georg Martius

GasNets and CTRNNs – A Comparison in Terms of Evolvability   Sven Magg and Andrew Philippides

Global Navigation through Local Reference Frames   John Pisokas

Hierarchical Cooperative CoEvolution Facilitates the Redesign of Agent-based Systems   Michail Maniadakis and Panos Trahanias

Incremental Evolution of Robot Controllers for a Highly Integrated Task   Anders Lyhne Christensen and Marco Dorigo

Incremental Evolution of Target-Following Neuro-controllers for Flapping-Wing Animats   Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Stéphane Doncieux and Jean-Arcady Meyer

Incremental Skill Acquisition for Self-Motivated Learning Animats   Andrea Bonarini, Alessandro Lazaric and Marcello Restelli

Integration of an autonomous artificial agent in an insect society: experimental validation.   Grégory Sempo, Stéphanie Depickère, Claire Detrain, Jose Halloy and Jean-Louis Deneubourg

Investigation of Reality Constrain: Morphology and Controller of Two-Link Legged Locomotors for Dynamically Stable Locomotion   Kojiro Matsushita, Hiroshi Yokoi and Tamio Arai

Kinematic Modeling and Dynamic Analysis of the Long-based Undulation Fin of Gymnarchus Niloticus   Guangming WANG, Lincheng SHEN and Tianjiang HU

Modelling Multi-Modal Learning in a Hawkmoth   Anna Balkenius, Almut Kelber and Christian Balkenius

Modelling the Peripheral Auditory System of Lizards   Lei Zhang, John Hallam and Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard

Modular design of irreducible systems   Martin Huelse and Frank Pasemann

Navigation in Large-scale Environments Using an Augmented Model of Visual Homing   Lincoln Smith, Andy Philippides and Phil Husbands

Noisy Preferential Attachment and Language Evolution   Samarth Swarup and Les Gasser

Origins of communication in evolving robots   Davide Marocco and Stefano Nolfi

Perceptual-Motor Sequence Learning via Human-Robot Interaction   Jean-David Boucher and Peter Ford Dominey

Piagetian Adaptation Meets Image Schemas: The Jean System   Yu-Han Chang, Paul Cohen, Clayton Morrison and Robert St. Amant

POTBUG: A Mind's Eye Approach to Providing BUG-like Guarantees For Adaptive Obstacle Navigation Using Dynamic Potential Fields   Michael Weir, Anthony Buck and Jon Lewis

Robot learning in a social robot   Salvador Dominguez, Eduardo Zalama, Jaime G. García-Bermejo and Jaime Pulido

Searching for Emergent Representations in Evolved Dynamical Systems   Thomas Hope, Ivilin Stoianov and Marco Zorzi

Simbad : an Autonomous Robot Simulation Package for Education and Research   Louis Hugues and Nicolas Bredeche

Some adaptive advantages of the ability to make predictions   Daniele Caligiore, Massimo Tria and Domenico Parisi

Spatially Constrained Networks and the Evolution of Modular Control Systems.   Peter Anthony Fine, Ezequiel Di Paolo and Andrew Owen Philippides

Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity Learning for Visual-Based Obstacles Avoidance   Hedi Soula and Guillaume Beslon

Spiking neural controllers for pushing objects around   Razvan V. Florian

Stabilising Hebbian learning with a third factor in a food retrieval task   Adedoyin Maria Thompson, Bernd Porr and Florentin Wörgötter

Synchronization and Gait Adaptation in Evolving Hexapod Robots   Mariagiovanna Mazzapioda and Stefano Nolfi

The complexity of finding an optimal policy for language convergence   Kiran Lakkaraju and Les Gasser

The Control of Turning in Real and Simulated Stick Insects   Hugo Rosano and Barbara Webb

The Emergence of Communication by Evolving Dynamical Systems.   Steffen Wischmann and Frank Pasemann

Transition cells for navigation and planning in an unknown environment   Nicolas Cuperlier, Mathias Quoy, Christophe Giovanangelli, Philippe Gaussier and Philippe Laroque

Use your Illusion:Sensorimotor self-simulation allows complex agents to plan with incomplete self-knowledge   Richard Vaughan and Mauricio Zuluaga

Visual Control of Flight Speed and Height in the Honeybee   Emily Baird, Mandyam Srinivasan, Shaowu Zhang, Richard Lamont and Ann Cowling

Visual Learning of Affordance based Cues   Gerald Fritz, Lucas Paletta, Manish Kumar and Georg Dorffner

Why are Evolved Developing Organisms also Fault-Tolerant?   Diego Federici and Tom Ziemke