Learning Robots

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 6th European Workshop Learning Robots, EWLR '96, held in Brighton, UK. The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected during an iterated revision process. Besides the core areas of artificial intelligence and robotics, issues from cognitive science, mathematics, social sciences, neuroscience, biology, and electronic engineering are of importance for this interdisciplinary area. Among the topics covered are reinforcement learning, Q-learning, robot behavior, state space construction, autonomous robot, mobile robots, neural networks, robot perception, evolutionary learning, evolvable hardware.