The Biology and Technology of Intelligent Autonomous Agents

I. Lectures.- The Biology of Behavior - Criteria for Success in Animals and Robots.- Autonomy - On Quantitative Performance Measures of Robot Behaviour.- Robot Adaptivity.- Intelligence - Dynamics and Representations.- An Introduction to Reinforcement Learning.- Cognition - Perspectives from Autonomous Agents.- Lifelong Robot Learning.- Cognitive Architectures - From Knowledge Level to Structural Coupling.- II. Research Papers.- Circle in the Round: State Space Attractors for Evolved Sighted Robots.- Animal and Robot Navigation.- From Local Interactions to Collective Intelligence.- The Mobile Robot of MAI A: Actions and Interactions in a Real Life Scenario.- Fiutem Of Elephants and Men.- How Do You Choose Your Agents? How Do You Distribute Your Processes?.- The Reactive Accompanist: Adaptation and Behavior Decomposition in a Music System.- Behavior-Based Architecture with Distributed Selection.- Reporting Experiments on Integration of Learning Algorithms and Reactive Behaviour-Oriented Control Systems on a Real Mobile Robot.- Distributed Reinforcement Learning.- III. Research Notes.- A New Three-Degree-of-Freedom Spatially Mobile Robot Topology.- How Swarms Build Cognitive Maps.- Multiple Neural Experts for Improved Decision Making.- Understanding Complex Systems: What can the Speaking Lion Tell us?.- Multi-Modal Active Sensing for a Simple Mobile Agent.- Evaluating an Active Camera Controlled by a Subsumption Architecture.- AMOS: Basic Autonomy via Integrating Symbolic and Subsymbolic Mechanisms.- List of Contributors.