Embodied Behavioral Control: Animals and Robots

This lecture introduces the course structure, grading, and materials, covering topics such as controlling behavior in animals and robots. Students will engage in oral presentations, computational exercises using Webots & Python, and a mini-project for hands-on neuroscientific discovery. The course progresses through various themes including the body and behavior, taxis behaviors, neural networks, collective behavior, internal states, hierarchical control, and navigation using internal maps and planning.