Task Environments for the Dynamic Development of Behavior

  • Authors:
  • Derek Harter;Robert Kozma

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICCS '01 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science-Part II
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The development of complex, adaptive behavior in biological organisms represents vast improvement over current methods of learning for artificial autonomous systems. Dynamical and embodied models of cognition [1-13] are beginning to provide new insights into how the chaotic, non-linear dynamics of heterogeneous neural structures may self-organize in order to develop effective patterns of behavior. We are interested in creating models of ontogenetic development that capture some of the flexibility and power of biological systems. In this paper we present a testbed for the creation and testing of models of development. We present some results on standard neural networks in learning to perform this task and discuss future plans for developmental models in this environment.