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Artificial Neural Nets for Controlling a 6-Legged Walking System
Holk Cruse, Uwe M?ller-Wilm, and Jeffrey Dean
A Neural Network Based Behavior Hierarchy for Locomotion Control
Sunil Cherian and Wade 0. Troxell
A Qualitative Dynamical Analysis of Evolved Locomotion Controllers
John C. Gallagher and Randall D. Beer
Neuronal Parameter Maps and Signal Processing
Richard A. Altes
Representation and Processing of Acoustic Information in a Biomimetic Neural
Network
Herbert L. Roitblat, Patrick W. B. Moore, David A. Helweg, and Paul E. Nachtigall
An Integrated Computational Model of a Perceptual-Motor System
William R. Uttal, Thomas Shepherd, Sriram Dayanand, and Robb Lovell
Reactive Behaviors of Fast Mobile Robots in Unstructured Environments, Sensor-Based
Control and Neural Networks
R. Zapata, P. Lepinay, C. Novales, and P. Deplanques
The Adaptive Nature of 3D Perception
Allen Brookes
Propulsion and Guidance in a Simulation of the Worm C. Elegans
Ralph Hartley
A Simple, Cheap, and Robust Visual Navigation System
Ian Horswill
ACTION SELECTION AND BEHAVIORAL SEQUENCES
The Use of Hierarchies for Action Selection
Toby Tyrrell
Two Methods for Hierarchy Learning in Reinforcement Environments
Mark Ring
Should I Stay or Should I Go: Coordinating Biological Needs with Continuously-updated
Assessments of the Environment
Liane M. Gabora
Extensions of the Associative Control Process (ACP) Network: Hierarchies and
Provable Optimality
Leemon C. Baird In and A. Harry Klopf
Behavior Networks and Force Fields for Simulating Spinal Reflex Behaviors
of the Frog
Simon Giszter
The Ariadne's Clew Algorithm
Emmanuel Mazer, Juan Manuel Ahuactzin, El- Ghazali Talbi, and Pierre Bessiere
Dynamic Selection of Action Sequences
Feliz Ribeiro, Jean-Paul Barthes, and Eugenio Oliveira
Planning Simple Trajectories Using Neural Subgoal Generators
Jurgen Schmidhuber and Reiner Wahnsiedler
A Note on Rate-Sensitive Habituation
J. E. R. Staddon
COGNITIVE MAPS AND INTERNAL WORLD MODELS
Categorization, Representations, and The Dynamics of System-Environment Interaction:
A Case Study in Autonomous Systems
Paul F. M. J. Verschure and Rolf Pfeifer
A Directional Spreading Activation Network for Mobile Robot Navigation
David Kortenkamp and Eric Chown
Memorizing and Representing Route Scenes
Saburo Tsuff and Shigang Li
Building Long-Range Cognitive Maps Using Local Landmarks
Tony J. Prescott and John E. W. Mayhew
Dynamics of Spatial Navigation: An Adaptive Neural Network
Nestor A. Schmajuk and H. T. Blair
LEARNING
Modeling Nervous System Function with a Hierarchical Network of Control Systems
That Learn
A. Harry Klopf, James S. Morgan, and Scott E. Weaver
An Optimization-Based Categorization of Reinforcement Learning Environments
Michael L. Littman
Reinforcement Learning with Hidden States
Long-Ji Lin and Tom M. Mitchell
Efficient Learning and Planning within the Dyna Framework
Jing Peng and Ronald J. Williams
Increasing Behavioural Repertoire in a Mobile Robot
Ulrich Nehmzow, Tim Smithers, and Brendan McGonigle
Learning Biped Robot Obstacle Crossing
Thomas Ulrich Vogel
Learning to Control an Autonomous Robot by Distributed Genetic Algorithms
Marco Colombetti and Marco Dorigo
Temporary Memory for Examples Can Speed Learning in a Simple Adaptive System
Lawrence Davis, Stewart Wilson, and David Orvosh
Implementing Inner Drive Through Competence Reflection
Alexander Linden and Frank Weber
Dynamic Flight Control with Adaptive Coarse Coding
Bruce E. Rosen and James M. Goodwin
Learning via Task Decomposition
Josh Tenenberg, Jonas Karlsson, and Steven Whitehead
EVOLUTION
Neural Networks with Motivational Units
Federico Cecconi and Domenico Parisi
Evolutionary Learning of Predatory Behaviors Based on Structured Classifiers
Hitoshi Iba, Hugo de Garis, and Tetsuya Higuchi
Issues in Evolutionary Robotics
Inman Harvey, Philip Husbands, and Dave Cliff
Evolving Visually Guided Robots
Dave Cliff, Philip Husbands, and Inman Harvey
An Evolved, Vision-Based Behavioral Model of Coordinated Group Motion
Craig W. Reynolds
Evolution of Herding Behavior in Artificial Animals
Gregory M. Werner and Michael G. Dyer
An Evolutionary Approach to Cognition
Dwight Deugo and Franz Oppacher
Emergence of Nest-Based Foraging Strategies in Ecosystems of Neural Networks
Dario Floreano
Evolving Hardware with Genetic Learning: A Filst Step Towards Building a Darwin
Machine
Tetsuya Higuchi, Tatsuya Niwa, Toshio Tanaka, Hitoshi Iba, Hugo de Garis,
and Tatsumi Furuya
Evolving Artificial Insect Brains for Artificial Compound Eye Robotics
Luis R. Lopez and Robert E. Smith
COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR
Designing Emergent Behaviors: From Local Interactions to Collective Intelligence
Maja J. Mataric
Adaptive Action Selection for Cooperative Agent Teams
Lynne E. Parker
From Tom Thumb to the Dockers: Some Experiments with Foraging Robots
Alexis Drogoul and Jacgues Ferber
Collective Robotic Intelligence
C. Ronald Kube and Hong Zhang
Collective Choice of Strategic Type
Chisato Numaoka and Akikazu Takeuchi
An Adaptive Communication Protocol for Cooperating Mobile Robots
Holly Yanco and Lynn Andrea Stein
Dimensions of Communication and Social Organization in Multi-Agent Robotic
Systems
Ronald C. Arkin and J. David Hobbs
Evolution of Trading Strategies Among Heterogeneous Artificial Economic Agents
Andrea Beltratti and Sergio Margarita
Action Selection and Learning in Multi-Agent Environments
Gerhard Weiss
ONE-PAGE SUMMARIES
Structure from Associative Learning
John H. Andreae, Shaun W. Ryan, and Mark L. Tomlinson
The Roots of Motivation
Christian Balkenius
Learning Continuous-Space Navigation Heuristics in Real Time
Gregory D. Benson and Armand Prieditis
The Adaptive Power of Affect: Learning in the SESAME Architecture
Eric Chown
Model of a Behaviour Based Control Architecture
Luis Correia and A. Steiger-Gar?ao
Comparing Robot and Animal Behavior
Bridget Hallam and Gillian Hayes
An Embodied Neurally-Based Algorithm for Optimal Action Selection
Owen Holland and Martin Snaith
Why Should We Build Artificial Worms and How?
Oded Maler
Creative Perception
M. A. Rodrigues and M. H. Lee
Collective Behavior of Silicon Microrobots
Isao Shimoyama, Toshio Watanabe, Yoshihiko Kuwana, and Hirofumi Miura
An Analog VLSI Model of Central Pattern Generation in the Medicinal
Leech
Micah S. Siegel