Book Contents

This research book presents the collection of papers presented in the 3^rd International Symposium on Human and Artificial Intelligence Systems held in Fukui, Japan in December 2002. The Japanese title of the symposium was “New Age Evolves through Robotics with Intelligence: Dynamic Systems Approach for Embodiment and Sociality”. 

The research papers cover theoretical foundations as well as a wide spectrum of applications related to human and artificial intelligence. The paradigms include ecological psychology, artificial neural networks, intelligent robotics, fuzzy systems, intelligent agents, evolutionary computation, and edutainment. 

This book is a collection of work from many world-class researchers with a variety of academic and industrial backgrounds. Authors include T. Gomi, Applied AI Systems Canada; E.A. Di Paolo, University of Sussex UK; H.H. Lund, University of Southern Denmark, D. Floreano, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Switzerland; S. Nolfi, National Research Council Italy; R.E. Shaw University of Connecticut USA; Y. Nakamura and M. Sasaki, University of Tokyo; and T. Fukuda, Nagoya University Japan. The research covers the following areas:

• Dynamics of Intention and Cognition
• Embodied Intelligence
• Evolutionary Robotics
• Edutainment Robotics
• Dynamics of Sociality and Emotion
• Sensing and Perception
• Learning and Adaptation
• Dexterous Robotics
• Complexity and Chaos Dynamics
• Virtual Reality and Recognition

Editors

Professor Kazuyuki Murase received BE in Electronic Engineering from Himeji Institute of Technology, ME in Electrical Engineering from Nagoya University and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Iowa State University. He served as a Research Associate at the Department of Information Science in Toyohashi University of Technology and then moved to Fukui University as an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Science and later became a Professor. He has served as the chairman of the newly established Department of Human and Artificial Intelligence Systems (HART). He is currently working on neuroscience of sensory systems, self-organizing neural networks, and bio-robotics.

Professor Toshiyuki Asakura received BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Kyoto University. He has worked as a Research Assistant in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Kyoto Institute of Technology, as a Lecturer and then an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Fukui University, Fukui. Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Human Artificial and Intelligent System Engineering. He is the author of six books and 135 published papers with topics ranging from stochastic control, nonlinear control theory, chaos analysis and its control, intelligent control using neural networks and genetic algorithms and its applications. Dr. Asakura is a member of IEEE (USA), JSME, SICE and JAACE (Japan).