Adaptive Systems (825G5)
15 credits, Level 7 (Masters)
Spring teaching
On this module, you'll develop an understanding of various processes of adaptation, which operate both in and upon natural and artificial systems.
Through lectures and seminars, you'll focus on the introduction and discussion of how evolution, in biological and artificial contexts, adapts systems to their environments or specified tasks. You'll also learn how self-adapting systems can adapt to cope with changing environments or to acquire new skills.
Topics include:
- the cybernetic origins of adaptive systems research
- the central role of feedback in intelligent and adaptive behaviour
- ultrastable systems
- self-organised and emergent systems
- autonomous and evolutionary robotics
- the free energy principle and active inference.