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Decisions and noise: the scope of evolutionary synthesis and dynamical analysis

Thomas Buhrmann wrote 11 months ago: The agents evolved by Randall Beer for active object discrimination perform an undeniably interestin … more →

Tags: object discrimination, Decision Making, noise, E. A. Di Paolo, 2003

Evolutionary Robotics: A new scientific tool for studying cognition

Thomas Buhrmann wrote 11 months ago: We survey developments in Artificial Neural Networks, in Behaviour-based Robotics and Evolutionary A … more →

Tags: Meta-Philosophy, E. A. Di Paolo, E. Tuci, M. Quinn, r. wood, Review, evolutionary robotics, Behaviour-based robotics, 2005

Misrepresentations

Thomas Buhrmann wrote 11 months ago: The concept of “representations”, and particularly “internal representations”, can be controversial … more →

Tags: Représentations, 2008

Hebbian Learning using Fixed Weight Evolved Dynamical 'Neural' Networks

Thomas Buhrmann wrote 11 months ago: We evolve small continuous-time recurrent networks with fixed weights that perform Hebbian learning … more →

Tags: Dynamics, Learning and Adaptation, Synaptic Plasticity, 2007, E. Izquierdo, Hebbian Learning

Learning on a Continuum in Evolved Dynamical Node Networks

Thomas Buhrmann wrote 11 months ago: In artificial life, there has been much previous research using evolution to generate learning behavi … more →

Tags: Embodiment, Learning and Adaptation, object discrimination, Synaptic Plasticity, Relational Categorization, E. Izquierdo, 2006, imprinting

Homeostasis and Rein Control: From Daisyworld to Active Perception

Thomas Buhrmann wrote 11 months ago: Homeostasis refers to the ability of organisms to maintain vital properties, such as body temperatur … more →

Tags: Active Perception, Homeostasis, Taxis (chemo, photo), daisyworld, Rein control

Evolving fixed-weight networks for learning robots

Thomas Buhrmann wrote 11 months ago: Research in the field of evolutionary robotics has begun to investigate the evolution of learning co … more →

Tags: Learning and Adaptation, Synaptic Plasticity, 2002, E. Tuci, M. Quinn

Evolving integrated controllers for autonomous learning robots using dynamic neural networks

Thomas Buhrmann wrote 11 months ago: In 1994, Yamauchi and Beer (1994) attempted to evolve a dynamic neural network as a control system f … more →

Tags: Learning and Adaptation, Modularity / Integration, 2002, E. Tuci, M. Quinn, Integrated controllers, modularity, reinforcement

Using a net to catch a mate: Evolving CTRNNs for the Dowry Problem

Thomas Buhrmann wrote 11 months ago: Choosing one option from a sequence of possibilities seen one at a time is a common problem facing a … more →

Tags: Sequential Behaviour, Relational Categorization, computation, 2002, E. Tuci, P.M. Todd, Dowry problem

Robotics: Philosophy of Mind using a Screwdriver

Thomas Buhrmann wrote 11 months ago: The design of autonomous robots has an intimate relationship with the study of autonomous animals an … more →

Tags: Meta-Philosophy, 2000, Philosophy

Cognition is not Computation: Evolution is not Optimisation

Thomas Buhrmann wrote 11 months ago: An overview is given of the role and relevance of Artificial Neural Nets (ANNs) as control systems … more →

Tags: Incremental Shaping, Genetic Algorithms, computation, 1997

Associative learning on a continuum in evolved dynamical neural networks

Thomas Buhrmann wrote 11 months ago: This article extends previous work on evolving learning without synaptic plasticity from discrete ta … more →

Tags: Learning and Adaptation, Synaptic Plasticity, E. Izquierdo, R. Beer, 2008, finite-state machines, associative learning

Spatial, temporal and modulatory factors affecting GasNet evolvability

Thomas Buhrmann wrote 1 year ago: Spatial,temporal,and modulatory factors affecting the evolvability of GasNets —a style of artificial … more →

Tags: Evolvability, ANN Variations, 2010, E. A. Di Paolo, spatial embedding


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