Microbial fuel cell driven behavioural dynamics in robot simulations

Montebelli, AlbertoHögskolan i Skövde,Institutionen för kommunikation och information,Forskningscentrum för Informationsteknologi,Cognition and Interaction Lab, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden (författare)

With the present study we report the first application of a recently proposed model for realistic microbial fuel cells (MFCs) energy generation dynamics, suitable for robotic simulations with minimal and extremely limited computational overhead. A simulated agent was adapted in order to engage in a viable interaction with its environment. It achieved energy autonomy by maintaining viable levels of the critical variables of MFCs, namely cathodic hydration and anodic substrate biochemical energy. After unsupervised adaptation by genetic algorithm, these crucial variables modulate the behavioral dynamics expressed by viable robots in their interaction with the environment. The analysis of this physically rooted and self-organized dynamic action selection mechanism constitutes a novel practical contribution of this work. We also compare two different viable strategies, a self-organized continuous and a pulsed behavior, in order to foresee the possible cognitive implications of such biologicalmechatronics hybrid symbionts in a novel scenario of ecologically grounded energy and motivational autonomy.

Lowe, RobertHögskolan i Skövde,Institutionen för kommunikation och information,Forskningscentrum för Informationsteknologi,Cognition and Interaction Lab.,Cognition & Interaction Lab, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden,(Swepub:his)lowr (författare)
Ieropoulos, IoannisBristol Robotics Laboratory, University of Bristol and University of the West of England, UK,Bristol Robotics Lab, University of Bristol and University of the West of England, UK (författare)
Melhuish, ChrisBristol Robotics Laboratory, University of Bristol and University of the West of England, UK,Bristol Robotics Lab, University of Bristol and University of the West of England, UK (författare)
Greenman, JohnMicrobiology Research Lab, University of the West of England, UK (författare)
Ziemke, TomHögskolan i Skövde,Institutionen för kommunikation och information,Forskningscentrum för Informationsteknologi,Cognition and Interaction Lab.,Cognition & Interaction Lab, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden,(Swepub:his)ziet (författare)
Högskolan i SkövdeInstitutionen för kommunikation och information (creator_code:org_t)

Ingår i:Artificial Life XIICambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, s. 749-75697802622907530262290758

Av författaren/redakt...: Montebelli, Albe ...; Lowe, Robert; Ieropoulos, Ioan ...; Melhuish, Chris; Greenman, John; Ziemke, Tom

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