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BehaviorSim: A Learning Environment for Behavior-Based Agent

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Behavior-based control is one of the fundamental control paradigms for autonomous agents to achieve adaptive behavior in a dynamical environment. Existing work has mainly focused on the research aspect rather than on the learning and educational aspect. This paper presents an effort to develop a learning environment for behavior-based agents. It allows educators and students to develop and exercise behavior-based control by setting up entities, behaviors, and behavior networks without involving significant programming effort. Specification of behavior-based agent system is presented and demonstrative examples are provided.

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  1. Computer Science Department, Georgia State University, Atlanta,  , GA 30303

    Fasheng Qiu & Xiaolin Hu

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Minoru Asada John C. T. Hallam Jean-Arcady Meyer Jun Tani

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Qiu, F., Hu, X. (2008). BehaviorSim: A Learning Environment for Behavior-Based Agent. In: Asada, M., Hallam, J.C.T., Meyer, JA., Tani, J. (eds) From Animals to Animats 10. SAB 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5040. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69134-1_49

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