TY - GEN
T1 - Taming the Beast
T2 - Guided Self-organization of Behavior in Autonomous Robots
AU - Martius, Georg
AU - Herrmann, J. Michael
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Self-organizing processes are crucial for the development of living beings. Practical applications in robots may benefit from the self-organization of behavior, e.g. for the increased fault tolerance and enhanced flexibility provided that external goals can also be achieved. We present several methods for the guidance of self-organizing control by externally prescribed criteria. We show that the degree of self-organized explorativity of the robot can be regulated and that problem-specific error functions, hints, or abstract symbolic descriptions of a goal can be reconciled with the continuous robot dynamics.
AB - Self-organizing processes are crucial for the development of living beings. Practical applications in robots may benefit from the self-organization of behavior, e.g. for the increased fault tolerance and enhanced flexibility provided that external goals can also be achieved. We present several methods for the guidance of self-organizing control by externally prescribed criteria. We show that the degree of self-organized explorativity of the robot can be regulated and that problem-specific error functions, hints, or abstract symbolic descriptions of a goal can be reconciled with the continuous robot dynamics.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78249277893&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-15193-4_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-15193-4_5
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 978-3-642-15192-7
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 50
EP - 61
BT - From Animals to Animats 11
A2 - Doncieux, Stéphane
A2 - Girard, Benoit
A2 - Guillot, Agnès
A2 - Hallam, John
A2 - Meyer, Jean-Arcady
A2 - Mouret, Jean-Baptiste
PB - Springer
ER -