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Evolving Reaction-Diffusion Controllers for Minimally Cognitive Animats

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This paper describes work carried out to investigate whether a classic reaction-diffusion (RD) system could be used to control a ‘minimally cognitive’ animat. The reaction-diffusion system chosen was that first described by Gray and Scott (Gray-Scott) and the minimally cognitive behaviors those used by Beer et. al involving the fixation and discrimination of diamond and circle shapes by a whiskered animat. The parameters of this RD-controller were evolved using an evolutionary, or genetic, algorithm (GA).

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  1. Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics (CCNR), Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK

    Kyran Dale

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  1. Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, LARRAL, Via S. Martino della Battaglia 44, 00185, Roma, Italy

    Stefano Nolfi

  2. Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology, (ISTC-CNR), Via San Martino della Battaglia 44, 00185, Rome, Italy

    Gianluca Baldassarre

  3. Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology, ISTC-CNR, Via S. Martino della Battaglia 44, 00185, Rome, Italy

    Raffaele Calabretta  & Davide Marocco  & 

  4. The Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230, Odense M, Denmark

    John C. T. Hallam

  5. UPMC Univ Paris 6, FRE2507, ISIR, F-75016, Paris, France

    Jean-Arcady Meyer

  6. Laboratory of Autonomous Robotics and Artificial Life, Institute of Cognitive, Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, Rome, Italy

    Orazio Miglino

  7. Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, 44, Via San Martino della, 00185, Rome, Battaglia, Italy

    Domenico Parisi

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Dale, K. (2006). Evolving Reaction-Diffusion Controllers for Minimally Cognitive Animats. In: Nolfi, S., et al. From Animals to Animats 9. SAB 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4095. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11840541_41

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