Behavior Emergence

The biologically inspired core principle of such a system is phrased as emergence and development of embodied behaviour and cognition. The importance of embodiment, emergence and continuous autonomous development is explained in the context of developmental robotics and dynamical systems view of human development.We present a hypothetical early developmental scenario that fills in the very beginning part of the comprehensive scenarios proposed in developmental robotics.Then our model and experiments on emergent embodied behaviour are presented.It consists of chaotic maps embedded in sensory-motor loops and coupled via embodiment. Behaviours that are consistent with embodiment and adaptive to environmental structure emerge within a few seconds without any external reward or learning.