An investigation of two mediation strategies suitable for behavioural control in animals and animats
Proceedings of the first international conference on simulation of adaptive behavior on From animals to animats
Coherent behavior from many adaptive processes
SAB94 Proceedings of the third international conference on Simulation of adaptive behavior : from animals to animats 3: from animals to animats 3
Layered control architectures in robots and vertebrates
Adaptive Behavior
Backward projections in the cerebral cortex: implications for memory storage
Neural Computation
Biorobotics
Optimal Selection of Uncertain Actions by Maximizing Expected Utility
Autonomous Robots
A Distributed Model for Mobile Robot Environment-Learning and Navigation
A Distributed Model for Mobile Robot Environment-Learning and Navigation
A hybrid generative and predictive model of the motor cortex
Neural Networks
A subsumptive, hierarchical, and distributed vision-based architecture for smart robotics
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics
From bio-inspired vs. psycho-inspired to etho-inspired robots
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Development of complex robotic systems using the behavior-based control architecture iB2C
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Selective attention enables action selection: evidence from evolutionary robotics experiments
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
Minimizing human intervention in the development of basal ganglia-inspired robot control
Applied Bionics and Biomechanics
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This review considers some important landmarks in animal evolution, asking to what extent specialized action-selection mechanisms play a role in the functional architecture of different nervous system plans, and looking for "forced moves" or "good tricks" (see Dennett, D., 1995, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Penguin Books, London) that could possibly transfer to the design of robot control systems. A key conclusion is that while cnidarians (e.g. jellyfish) appear to have discovered some good tricks for the design of behavior-based control systems--largely lacking specialized selection mechanisms--the emergence of bilaterians may have forced the evolution of a central ganglion, or "archaic brain", whose main function is to resolve conflicts between peripheral systems. Whilst vertebrates have many interesting selection substrates it is likely that here too the evolution of centralized structures such as the medial reticular formation and the basal ganglia may have been a forced move because of the need to limit connection costs as brains increased in size.