A utonomous V ehicle for R esearch in I ntelligent C ontrol. Cyberbot , our Web Search Agent. Adaptrode , The adaptive element in our neural processing. Foraging Search , How our agents find things and avoid being destroyed.
Adaptive behavior is the hallmark of intelligence in nature.
A nimals, in their natural environment, are faced with a dynamic, uncertain world. It is one that is characterized by changes in the relationships between objects, not just the motion of objects. In general, the world is nonstationary, meaning that it is impossible, even in principle, to predict the kinds of changes that will affect the future success of an agent. T he Adaptive Agents Laboratory is devoted to the study of intelligent behavior in nonstationary environments. The objective is to emulate the abilities of simple animals to adapt to changes in order to better understand the problems associated with succeeding in the face of an uncertain world.