Evolutionary Robotics. From Intelligent Robotics to Artificial Life International Symposium, ER 2001, Tokyo, Japan, October 18-19, 2001. Proceedings /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gomi, Takashi (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2001.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2217
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence.; Robotics.; Automation.; Computers.; Artificial Intelligence.; Robotics and Automation.; Computation by Abstract Devices.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Evolutionary Robotics, ER 2001, held in Tokyo, Japan, in October 2001. The seven revised full papers by the invited speakers Rodney A. Brooks, Dario Floreano, Robert J. Full, Inman Harvey, Owen Holland, Francesco Mo...

Table of Contents:

• From the Imitation of Life to Machine Consciousness
• Evolution of Spiking Neural Controllers for Autonomous Vision-Based Robots
• First Three Generations of Evolved Robots
• Steps Towards Living Machines
• Artificial Evolution: A Continuing SAGA
• Using Biological Inspiration to Build Artificial Life That Locomotes
• Interactions between Art and Mobile Robotic System Engineering.