IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics-Part B
Vol.26, No.3, June 1996

Special Issue on
Learning Autonomous Robots

Guest Editor: Marco Dorigo

• Editorial
  by Marco Dorigo

• Behavior Analysis and Training: A methodology for Behavior Engineering (abstract) and (full paper.ps, 116K)
  by Marco Colombetti, Marco Dorigo, and Giuseppe Borghi

• Learning reactive and planning rules in a motivationally autonomous Animat (abstract)
  by Jean-Yves Donnart and Jean-Arcady Meyer

• Evolution of homing navigation in a real Mobile robot (abstract) and (full paper.ps.Z)
  by Dario Floreano and F. Mondada

• Rapid, safe, and incremental learning of navigation strategies (abstract)
  by José del R. Millán

• Model-based learning for mobile robot navigation from the dynamical systems perspective (abstract) and (full paper.ps.Z)
  by Jun Tani

• Learning to select useful landmarks (abstract) and (full paper.ps)
  by Russell Greiner and Ramana Isukapalli

• Evolution of an artificial neural network based autonomous land vehicle controller (abstract)
  by Shumeet Baluja

• Hidden state and reinforcement learning with instance-based state identification (abstract)
  by Andrew McCallum

• An incremental approach to developing intelligent neural network controllers for robots (abstract)
  by Lisa Meeden

• An unsupervised neural network for low-level control of a wheeled mobile robot: noise resistance, stability, and hardware implementation (abstract) and (full paper.ps.gz)
  by Paolo Gaudiano, Eduardo Zalama, and Juan López Coronado

• Spatial learning for navigation in dynamic environments (abstract) and (full paper.ps.gz)
  by Brian Yamauchi and Randall Beer