A Real-World Ecosystem featuring several Robot Species (1997)
| Venue: | AI Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. In The European Conference on Artificial Life ECAL97 |
| Citations: | 2 - 1 self |
BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{Belpaeme97areal-world,
author = {Tony Belpaeme and Andreas Birk},
title = {A Real-World Ecosystem featuring several Robot Species},
booktitle = {AI Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. In The European Conference on Artificial Life ECAL97},
year = {1997}
}
Bookmark
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
OpenURL
Abstract
This paper presents an artificial ecosystem embedded in the real world. The ecosystem hosts different robotic species linked together in their search for "food" in form of electrical energy. The paper deals with four species: the so-called "moles", the "competitors", the "mouse", and the "head". The differences between species are quite substantial. For example the "moles" have simple sensing capabilities whereas the "mouse" is equipped with vision. The "competitors" are a kind of parasite whereas the "head" depends on cooperation. These differences lead us to the notion of the so-called intelligence in terms of features. We present its relation to self-preservation and what follows is an additional support of the viewpoint that for an animat its environment has to be taken into account. 1 Introduction Following the "artificial life route to artificial intelligence " [19] the notion of intelligence can be based on the concept of behavior. Steels defines behavior as intelligent "if it...
