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Randall D. Beer

Director, CWRU Autonomous Agents Research Group
Associate Professor of Computer Engineering and Science, Case Western Reserve University
Associate Professor of Biology, Case Western Reserve University

Address:
Dept. of Computer Engineering and Science
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH 44106
Tel (216) 368-2816
Fax (216) 368-2801
Email: beer@alpha.ces.cwru.edu

Research Interests

My general area of interest is the adaptive behavior of autonomous agents. More specifically, I am interested in the evolution of dynamical neural networks for autonomous agents, the analysis of evolved dynamical neural networks, biologically-inspired robotics, neuroethological modeling, and the theory of adaptive behavior.

Recent Publications

Beer, R.D., Quinn, R.D., Chiel, H.J., and Ritzmann, R.E. (in press). Biologically-inspired approaches to robotics. To appear in Communications of the ACM.

Beer, R.D. (1996). Toward the evolution of dynamical neural networks for minimally cognitive behavior. (Compressed Postscript) In P. Maes, M. Mataric, J. Meyer, J. Pollack and S. Wilson (Eds.), From animals to animats 4: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (pp. 421-429). MIT Press.

Dellaert, F. and Beer, R.D. (1996). A developmental model for the evolution of complete autonomous agents. In P. Maes, M. Mataric, J. Meyer, J. Pollack and S. Wilson (Eds.), From animals to animats 4: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (pp. 393-401). MIT Press.

Beer, R.D. (in press). The dynamics of adaptive behavior: A research program. To appear in Robotics and Autonomous Systems.

Gallagher, J.C., Beer, R.D, Espenschied, K.S. and Quinn, R.D. (in press). Application of evolved locomotion controllers to a hexapod robot. To appear in Robotics and Autonomous Systems.

Espenschied, K.S., Quinn, R.D., Beer, R.D. and Chiel, H.J. (1996). Biologically-based distributed control and local reflexes improve rough terrain locomotion in a hexapod robot. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 18:59-64

Yamauchi, B. and Beer, R.D. (1996). Spatial learning for navigation in dynamic environments. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics-Part B 26(3):496-505.

Beer, R.D. (1995). On the dynamics of small continuous-time recurrent neural networks. Adaptive Behavior 3(4):471-511.

Beer, R.D. and Chiel, H.J. (1995). Locomotion, invertebrate. In M.A. Arbib (Ed.), The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks (pp. 553-556). MIT Press.

Beer, R.D. (1995). A dynamical systems perspective on agent-environment interaction. Artificial Intelligence 72:173-215.

Beer, R.D. (1995). Computational and dynamical languages for autonomous agents. In R. Port and T. van Gelder (Eds.), Mind as Motion: Explorations in the Dynamics of Cognition (pp. 121-147). MIT Press.

Beer, R.D., Ritzmann, R.E. and Chiel, H.J. (1995). Models of the neural basis of insect behavior. In S. Zornetzer, J. Davis, C. Lau and T. McKenna (Eds.), An Introduction to Neural and Electronic Networks, Second Edition (pp. 165-184). Academic Press.

Complete Publication List


Randall D. Beer (beer@alpha.ces.cwru.edu)