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Biological inspirations in neural network implementations of Autonomous Agents

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This paper describes the development of an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) architecture that is capable to implement reactive behavior in Autonomous Agents (AAs). We make considerations about biological paradigms, as evolutionary mechanisms and animals' behaviors, trying to find solutions that, once applied to the development of artificial devices, provide more robust and useful AAs to operate in the real world. To have higher survival chances, life beings must have developed more complex behaviors, as reactive and internally motivated, in which the agent's action must depend on the past history of sensory values in order to be effective. This work shows that reactive behaviors can be described through Finite State Machines (FSMs) that requires a recurrent neural network architecture to be implemented, in order to insert dynamics and memory in the system. After the description of such network architecture and a biologically inspired learning algorithm, we make some experiments. Finally, conclusions for future work are given.

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Díbio L. Borges Celso A. A. Kaestner

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Roisenberg, M., Barreto, J.M., Azevedo, F.M. (1996). Biological inspirations in neural network implementations of Autonomous Agents. In: Borges, D.L., Kaestner, C.A.A. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence. SBIA 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1159. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61859-7_22

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