Evolving fault-tolerant systems /
Thompson, Adrian.
Brighton : University of Sussex at Brighton,
[1995]
Abstract: "The conventional mechanism used to gain fault tolerance is redundancy.  In contrast, this paper suggests that artificial evolution can be used to produce systems that are inherently insensitive to faults, with fault tolerance becoming part of the task specification. The possible techniques are investigated, and the study is grounded in a real-world evolved electronic control system for a robot."
Cover title.
"To appear in the First IEE/IEEE International Conference on Genetic Algorithms in Engineering Systems: Innovations and Applications (GALESIA '95), Sheffield, September 1995"--P. [1].
"July 1995."
Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: "The conventional mechanism used to gain fault tolerance is redundancy.  In contrast, this paper suggests that artificial evolution can be used to produce systems that are inherently insensitive to faults, with fault tolerance becoming part of the task specification. The possible techniques are investigated, and the study is grounded in a real-world evolved electronic control system for a robot."
Supported in part by a D.Phil. scholarship from the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
Fault-tolerant computing.