Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization -- Department for Nonlinear Dynamics and Network Dynamics Group
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Emergence of Interaction Among Adaptive Agents

Georg Martius, Stefano Nolfi, and J. Michael Herrmann (2008)

In: From Animals to Animats 10, 10th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB, Japan, Proceedings. Springer, pages 457-466.  ( BibTeX export )

Robotic agents can self-organize their interaction with the environment by an adaptive homeokinetic controller that simultaneously maximizes sensitivity of the behavior and predictability of sensory inputs. Based on previous work with single robots, we study the interaction of two homeokinetic agents. We show that this paradigm also produces quasi-social interactions among artificial agents. The results suggest that homeokinetic learning generates social behavior only in the the context of an actual encounter of the interaction partner while this does not happen for an identical stimulus pattern that is only replayed. This is in agreement with earlier experiments with human subjects.