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Behavioral Selection Using the Utility Function Method: A Case Study Involving a Simple Guard Robot

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Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE 2005)

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In this paper, the performance of the utility function method for behavioral organization is investigated in the framework of a simple guard robot. In order to achieve the best possible results, it was found that high-order polynomials should be used for the utility functions, even though the use of such polynomials, involving many terms, increases the running time needed for the evolutionary algorithm to find good solutions.

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  1. Department of Applied Mechanics, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96, Göteborg, Sweden

    Mattias Wahde, Jimmy Pettersson, Hans Sandholt & Krister Wolff

  2. Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96, G&:oteborg, Sweden

    Krister Wolff

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  1. Mattias Wahde
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  1. Dept. of Human and Artificial Intelligence Systems, University of Fukui, Bunkyo 3-9-1, 910-8507, Fukui, Japan

    Kazuyuki Murase , Kosuke Sekiyama  & Tomohide Naniwa ,  & 

  2. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Minami-Osawa 1-1, 192-0397, Hachioji Tokyo, Japan

    Naoyuki Kubota

  3. Faculty of Information Technology School of Software Engineering & Data Communication, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, 001 Brisbane, Australia

    Joaquin Sitte

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Wahde, M., Pettersson, J., Sandholt, H., Wolff, K. (2006). Behavioral Selection Using the Utility Function Method: A Case Study Involving a Simple Guard Robot. In: Murase, K., Sekiyama, K., Naniwa, T., Kubota, N., Sitte, J. (eds) Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE 2005). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29344-2_39

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