Adaptive Systems 2010. Lectures

Lectures take place Mondays 11:00 - 13:00 in Arundel 401. 
Copies of lecture slides will be made available on this page as .pdf files.

Lecture 1:  Introduction  (WK1) [.pdf]

          Lecture 2:  Cybernetic roots of AI     (WK2) [.pdf] 

          Lecture 4:  Autopoiesis, autonomy, adaptation   (WK3 Xabier) [.pdf]

• Varela, F. G., Maturana, H. R., & Uribe, R. (1974). Autopoiesis: the organization of living systems, its characterization and a model. BioSystems, 5(4), 187.
• Di Paolo, E. (2005). Autopoiesis, Adaptivity, Teleology, Agency. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 4(4), 429-452. doi: 10.1007/s11097-005-9002-y
• Ruiz-Mirazo, K., & Moreno, A. (2004). Basic Autonomy as a Fundamental Step in the Synthesis of Life. Artificial Life, 10(3), 235-259. doi: 10.1162/1064546041255584
• Bechtel, W. (2007). Biological mechanisms: Organized to maintain autonomy. In F. C. Boogerd (Ed.), Systems Biology; Philosophical Foundations. Elsevier, Amsterdam (pp. 269-302).

           Lecture 5: Major Transitions in the Evolution of Adaptive Behaviour (WK3 Xabier) [.pdf]

• General:
  
• Godfrey-Smith, P. (2002) Environmental Complexity and the Evolution of Cognition. In R. Sternberg and J. Kaufman (eds.) The Evolution of Intelligence. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp.233—249.
• Barandiaran, X., & Moreno, A. (2008). Adaptivity: From Metabolism to Behavior. Adaptive Behavior, 16(5), 325-344. doi: 10.1177/1059712308093868
• Prescott, T. J. (2007). Forced Moves or Good Tricks in Design Space? Landmarks in the Evolution of Neural Mechanisms for Action Selection. Adaptive Behavior, 15(1), 9-31. doi: 10.1177/1059712306076252
• E. coli:
• Bray, D., Levin, M. D., & Lipkow, K. (2007). The Chemotactic Behavior of Computer-Based Surrogate Bacteria. Current Biology, 17(1), 12-19. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.11.027
• Alexandre, G., & Zhulin, I. B. (2001). More Than One Way To Sense Chemicals. J. Bacteriol., 183(16), 4681-4686. doi: 10.1128/JB.183.16.4681-4686.2001
  
• Hydra & A. Digitale Jellyfish:
• Albert, J. (1999). Computational modeling of an early evolutionary stage of the nervous system. Biosystems, 54(1-2), 77-90. doi: 10.1016/S0303-2647(99)00065-9
  
• Mackie, G.O. (2004) Central Neural Circutry in Jellyfish Aglantha. Neurosignals 13:5—19.
  
• C. elegans:
• Dunn, N. A., Conery, J. S., & Lockery, S. R. (2007). Circuit Motifs for Spatial Orientation Behaviors Identified by Neural Network Optimization. J Neurophysiol, 98(2), 888-897. doi: 10.1152/jn.00074.2007
  
• Brain Evolution: 
• Roth, G., & Dicke, U. (2005). Evolution of the brain and intelligence. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(5), 250-257. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2005.03.005
  
• Yaeger, L.S. & Sporns, O. (2006) Evolution of Neural Structure and Complexity in a Computational Ecology, In Rocha, L. et al. (Eds.) Proceedings of Artificial Life X, MIT Press, pp.330—336.
  

Lecture 6:  Learning   (WK 4) [.pdf]

Lecture 7:  Ecological adaptation (WK 4) [.pdf]

Lecture 8:  Evolution (WK 5) [.pdf]

Lecture 9:  Perception and Sensory substitution (WK 5) [.pdf]
Videos mentioned in Lecture 9:
Inattentional blindness:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4
vOICE system
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0lmSYP7OcM
Self-Org Maps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQkIg69ZAXs&NR=1
Rubber Hand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCQbygjG0RU&feature=channel
Virtual Out of Body Experience
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xWowv7Qryc&feature=channel

 Lecture 10: Behaviour based robotics (WK 6) [.pdf]

 Lecture 11:  Evolutionary robotics I (WK 6) [.pdf]

 Lecture 12 +13:  Evolutionary robotics II (WK 7)  [.pdf]

 Lecture 14 + 15:  Neurorobotics  [Anil Seth] (WK8) [.pdf]

 Lecture 16:  Autonomous robotics (WK9) [.pdf]

Lecture 17:  Control engineering (WK 10 -- ctd on from Wk 9)

Lecture 18:  Summary of Course (WK 10) [.pdf]