Artificial Ethology »

Owen Holland, Intelligent Autonomous Systems Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering, University of the West of England, Coldharbour Lane, Frenchay, Bristol BS16 1QY Currently a visiting research fellow at Caltech: owen@micro.caltech.edu David MacFarland, Animal Behaviour Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. david.mcfarland@zoology.oxford.ac.uk

Not faked studies of animal behavior, but the application of robotics and artificial intelligence techniques to problems of animal behavior. Contributors originally trained in one of the life sciences and have first-hand experience with robots explain studying the behavior of real and simulated robots, using robots to gather data from animals or the environment, and investigating the performance of animal-like robots in real-life situations. The primary audience is intended to be ethologists unaware of robot applications in their field, but the biological matter in kept elementary enough for physical scientists exploring applications of robots. The six chapters and nine case studies are from a July 1998 workshop in Puerto Chico, Playa Blanca de Yaiza, Lanzerote.

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