Much research in cognitive science, and in particular artificial intelligence (AI) and artificial
life (ALife), has since the mid-1980s been devoted to the study of so-called autonomous …

Presents a miniature robotic system (" scout") useful for reconnaissance and surveillance
missions. A large number of scout robots are deployed and controlled by humans and/or …

We present two empirical studies on the design of control software for robot swarms. In
Study A, Vanilla and EvoStick, two previously published automatic design methods, are …

Many complex control problems require sophisticated solutions that are not amenable to
traditional controller design. Not only is it difficult to model real world systems, but often it is …

This paper presents Webots: a realistic mobile robot simulator allowing a straightforward
transfer to real robots. The simulator currently support the Khepera mobile robot and a …

This article presents a formal theory of robot perception as a form of abduction. The theory
pins down the process whereby low‐level sensor data is transformed into a symbolic …

This paper presents an experiment of clustering implemented at three different levels: in a
hardware implementation, in a sensor-based simulation and in a probabilistic model. The …

We present the results of a research aimed at improving the Q-learning method through the
use of artificial neural networks. Neural implementations are interesting due to their …

Sequential decision tasks appear in many practical situations ranging from robot navigation
to stock market trading. Because of the complexity of such tasks, it is often difficult to …

The work presented in this paper deals with the problem of the navigation of a mobile robot
either in unknown indoor environment or in a partially known one. A navigation method in an …