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2007
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Evolution of Neural Networks for Active Control of Tethered Airfoils
Recent development in tethered airfoil i.e. kite technology allows the possibility of exploitation of wind energy at higher altitudes than achievable with traditional wind turbines...
Allister Furey, Inman Harvey
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ECAL
2007
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Modelling the Effects of Colony Age on the Foraging Behaviour of Harvester Ants
Abstract. The colonies of certain species of ants, for example Pogonomyrmex barbatus, exhibit changes in behaviour as the colonies grow older, despite nearly all of the individual ...
Tom Diethe, Peter J. Bentley
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ECAL
2007
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
An Analysis of the Effects of Lifetime Learning on Population Fitness and Diversity in an NK Fitness Landscape
This paper examines the effects of lifetime learning on the diversity and fitness of a population. Our experiments measure the phenotypic diversity of populations evolving by purel...
Dara Curran, Colm O'Riordan, Humphrey Sorensen
ECAL
2007
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Constructing the Basic Umwelt of Artificial Agents: An Information-Theoretic Approach
Abstract. In the context of situated and embodied cognition, we evaluate an information-theoretic approach to the construction of the Umwelt of an artificial agent. We make the ass...
Philippe Capdepuy, Daniel Polani, Chrystopher L. N...
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ECAL
2007
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Synthesizing Physically-Realistic Environmental Models from Robot Exploration
Abstract. In previous work [4] a framework was demonstrated that allows an autonomous robot to automatically synthesize physically-realistic models of its own body. Here it is demo...
Josh C. Bongard