Artificial Life Models in Hardware [electronic resource] /
Adamatzky, Andrew.editor.
Komosinski, Maciej.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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.
Computer hardware.
Artificial intelligence.
Robotics.
Automation.
Application software.
Special purpose computers.
Computer Hardware.
Artificial Intelligence.
Robotics and Automation.
Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities.
Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems.