On the dynamics of small continuous-time recurrent neural networks
Adaptive Behavior - Special issue on computational neuroethology
AI for Game Developers
Extended Homeostatic Adaptation: Improving the Link between Internal and Behavioural Stability
SAB '08 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior: From Animals to Animats
Evolving an Artificial Homeostatic System
SBIA '08 Proceedings of the 19th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
IJCAI'91 Proceedings of the 12th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
CEC'09 Proceedings of the Eleventh conference on Congress on Evolutionary Computation
Task allocation for robots using inspiration from hormones
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
Local ultrastability in a real system based on programmable springs
ECAL'09 Proceedings of the 10th European conference on Advances in artificial life: Darwin meets von Neumann - Volume Part I
On-line assembly planning for stochastically reconfigurable systems
International Journal of Robotics Research
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The work of a simulated neuroendocrine controller with ultrastable neurons and glands is sketched and tested in terms of stability and adaptability. The artificial neurons connect to each other and to motors, while hormones produced by behaviour-related glands regulate their output. The ultrastable nature of the cells allows them to maintain their homeostasis by random reconfiguration of their connections and parameters without reference to the global goal of the system. Interactions of these ultrastable components cause individual robot behaviours to emerge to certain extents. The presented results show that the controller as a whole is capable of not only configuring itself to perform random walk, obstacle avoidance, mineral collection and recharging, but also to stay robust or adapt to a number of environmental and body perturbations without a need for a body model.