A schema based model of the praying mantis

  • Authors:
  • Giovanni Pezzulo;Gianguglielmo Calvi

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology – CNR, Roma, Italy;Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology – CNR, Roma, Italy

  • Venue:
  • SAB'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on From Animals to Animats: simulation of Adaptive Behavior
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present a schema-based agent architecture which is inspired by an ethological model of the praying mantis It includes an inner state, perceptual and motor schemas, several routines, a fovea and a motor We describe the design and implementation of the architecture and we use it for comparing two models: the former uses reactive, stimulus-response schemas; the latter involves also forward models, which are used by the schemas for generating predictions Our results show an advantage in using anticipatory components inside the schemas.