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2004
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Evolved Motor Primitives and Sequences in a Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Network

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Evolved Motor Primitives and Sequences in a Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Network
This study describes how complex goal-directed behavior can evolve in a hierarchically organized recurrent neural network controlling a simulated Khepera robot. Different types of dynamic structures self-organize in the lower and higher levels of a network for the purpose of achieving complex navigation tasks. The parametric bifurcation structures that appear in the lower level explain the mechanism of how behavior primitives are switched in a top-down way. In the higher level, a topologically ordered mapping of initial cell activation states to motor-primitive sequences self-organizes by utilizing the initial sensitivity characteristics of nonlinear dynamical systems. A further experiment tests the evolved controller’s adaptability to changes in its environment. The biological plausibility of the model’s essential principles is discussed.
Rainer W. Paine, Jun Tani
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Type Conference
Year 2004
Where GECCO
Authors Rainer W. Paine, Jun Tani
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