This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2024, held in Irvine, CA, USA, during September 9-12, 2024. The 26 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Bio-Inspired Navigation; Biomimetic Robots; Collective Behavior; Evolutionary Approaches to Adaptive Behavior; Motor Learning and Problem Solving and Decision-Making.