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Research Paper #739 | |
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| Title: | Modeling Biological Behaviour or "Dumb Animals and Stupid Robots" |
| Authors: | Webb,B |
| Date: | 1993 |
| Presented: | In the Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Artificial life, Brussels, 1993 |
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| Abstract: | This paper discusses some of the essential determinants of successful sensory-motor mechanisms in biological systems that are seriously under-represented in most Artificial Life models. These include specificity, non-centralised processes, and exploitation of the physical sensory and motor interface of the agent and environment. The ideas are illustrated in the interpretation of biological evidence, and the building of a robot model, for a hypothesised mechanism of cricket phonotaxis (the ability to track a conspecific auditory signal). the robot's behaviour confirms that the specificity of the task and effects of the environmental interface can be utilised to obtain a simple but effective location device. |
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