Issues in the physical realisation of autonomous robotic agents

Proceeding of the 4th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptative Behavior (SAB'96).The paper reports on the design and physical implementation of a non-trivial, biologically motivated experiment with robotic agents operating in a physical ecosystem It focuses on the agent architecture, which is behavior-oriented and dynamics-oriented. Data from physical experiments illustrate the paper.This work was financed by the Belgian Federal government FKFO project on emergent functionality (NFWO contract nr. G.0014.95) and the IUAP project (nr. 20) CONSTRUCT.Peer reviewe