Artificial Life Models in Hardware

ISBN-13: 9781848825291 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 268 str.

Andrew Adamatzky; Maciej Komosinski

Opis

Hopping, climbing and swimming robots, nano-size neural networks, motorless walkers, slime mould and chemical brains - "Artificial Life Models in Hardware" offers unique designs and prototypes of life-like creatures in conventional hardware and hybrid bio-silicon systems. Ideas and implementations of living phenomena in non-living substrates cast a colourful picture of state-of-art advances in hardware models of artificial life.

Recenzje

From the reviews:

"This book presents various contributions to the construction of life-like artifacts that globally show adaptation and evolution, as in the artificial life paradigm. ... The book is unique in that it attempts to mix various ideas on building artificial life in hardware ... . the book moves toward new methods and tools that represent the cutting edge of research. ... this book is appropriate for research; in the long term, it can serve as a reference." (G. Gini, ACM Computing Reviews, November, 2009)

Spis treści

The History and Future of Stiquito: A Hexapod Insectoid Robot.- Learning Legged Locomotion.- Salamandra Robotica: A Biologically Inspired Amphibious Robot that Swims and Walks.- Multilocomotion Robot: Novel Concept, Mechanism, and Control of Bio-inspired Robot.- Self-regulatory Hardware: Evolutionary Design for Mechanical Passivity on a Pseudo Passive Dynamic Walker.- Perception for Action in Roving Robots: A Dynamical System Approach.- Nature-inspired Single-electron Computers.- Tribolon: Water-Based Self-Assembly Robots.- Artificial Symbiosis in EcoBots.- The Phi-Bot: A Robot Controlled by a Slime Mould.- Reaction–Diffusion Controllers for Robots.

Blurb

Hopping, climbing and swimming robots, nano-size neural networks, motorless walkers, slime mould and chemical brains --- this book offers unique designs and prototypes of life-like creatures in conventional hardware and hybrid bio-silicon systems. Ideas and implementations of living phenomena in non-living substrates cast a colourful picture of state-of-the-art advances in hardware models of artificial life.

Focusing on topics and areas based on non-traditional thinking, and new and emerging paradigms in bio-inspired robotics, this book has a unifying theme: the design and real-world implementation of artificial life robotic devices.

Students and researchers will find this coverage of topics such as robotic energy autonomy, multi-locomotion of robots, biologically inspired autonomous robots, evolution in colonies of robotic insects, neuromorphic analog devices, self-configurable robots, and chemical and biological controllers for robots, will considerably enhance their understanding of the issues involved in the development of not-traditional hardware systems at the cusp of artificial life and robotics.