A Behavior-Based Model of the Hydra, Phylum Cnidaria
2007 (English)In: 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007: Advances in Artificial Life, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, 2007, p. 1024-1033Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Behavior-based artificial systems, e.g. mobile robots, are frequently designed using (various degrees and levels of) biology as inspiration, but rarely modeled based on actual quantitative empirical data. This paper presents a data-driven behavior-based model of a simple biological organism, the hydra. Four constituent behaviors were implemented in a simulated animal, and the overall behavior organization was accomplished using a colony-style architecture (CSA). The results indicate that the CSA, using a priority-based behavioral hierarchy suggested in the literature, can be used to model behavioral properties like latency, activation threshold, habituation, and duration of the individual behaviors of the hydra. Limitations of this behavior-based approach are also discussed.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, 2007. p. 1024-1033
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), ISSN 0302-9743, E-ISSN 0302-9743 ; 4648
Keywords [en]
behavior-based modeling, data-driven modeling, hydra, colony-style architecture
National Category
Computer and Information Sciences
Research subject
Technology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:his:diva-2091DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74913-4_103ISI: 000250749000103Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-38049067103ISBN: 978-3-540-74912-7 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:his-2091DiVA, id: diva2:32367
Conference
9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, September 10-14, 2007.
2008-05-282008-05-282018-01-12Bibliographically approved