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Artificial Life Models in Hardware

:	Andrew Adamatzky, Maciej Komosinski
:	Artificial Life Models in Hardware
:	Springer-Verlag
:	9781848825307
:	1
:	CHF 90.20
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:	Hardware
:	English

:	268
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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.

	Contents	8
	List of Contributors	13
	The History and Future of Stiquito: A Hexapod Insectoid Robot	17
	1.1 Introduction	17
	1.2 The Origins of Stiquito	17
	1.3 Engineering a Commercial Stiquito	19
	1.4 How the Stiquito Insect Walks	20
	1.5 Microprocessor Control and Stiquito Controlled	23
	1.6 The Extended Analog Computer as a Biologically Based Stiquito Controller	25
	1.7 The Sessile Stiquito Colony	29
	1.8 Educational Uses of Stiquito	33
	1.9 The Future of Stiquito	34
	References	35
	Learning Legged Locomotion	37
	2.1 Introduction	37
	2.2 Learning from Delayed Reward	38
	2.3 Learning from Implicit Reward	42
	2.4 Conclusion	47
	References	48
	Salamandra Robotica: A Biologically Inspired Amphibious Robot that Swims and Walks	50
	3.1 Introduction	50
	3.2 Robot's Design	59
	3.3 Hardware	62
	3.4 Experiments	69
	3.5 Future Work	75
	3.6 Conclusion	76
	References	78
	Multilocomotion Robot: Novel Concept, Mechanism, and Control of Bio- inspired Robot	80
	4.1 Introduction	80
	4.2 Multilocomotion Robot	81
	4.3 Gorilla Robot	86
	4.4 Evaluation of the Gorilla Robot on Slopes as Quadruped Hardware	90
	4.5 PreviousWorks Using the Gorilla Robot	97
	4.6 Summary	99
	References	100
	Self-regulatory Hardware: Evolutionary Design for Mechanical Passivity on a Pseudo Passive Dynamic Walker	102
	5.1 Introduction	102
	5.2 Background	103
	5.3 Evolutionary Design System of Legged Robots	104
	5.4 Evolutionary Design of Biped Robots	107
	5.5 Conclusion	116
	References	117
	Perception for Action in Roving Robots: A Dynamical System Approach	118
	6.1 Introduction	118
	6.2 Control Architecture	120
	6.3 Hardware Devices	128
	6.4 Hardware Implementation	132
	6.5 Experiments	137
	6.6 Summary and Remarks	144
	6.7 Conclusion	145
	References	145
	Nature-inspired Single-electron Computers	148
	7.1 Introduction	148
	7.2 A Single-electron Reaction-diffusion Device for Computation of a Voronoi Diagram	149
	7.3 Neuronal Synchrony Detection on Single-electron Neural Networks	155
	7.4 Stochastic Resonance Among Single-Electron Neurons on Schottky Wrap- Gate Devices	165
	7.5 Single-electron Circuits Performing Dendritic Pattern Formation with Nature- inspired Cellular Automata	166
	7.6 Summary and Future Works	170
	References	172
	Tribolon: Water-Based Self-Assembly Robots	175
	8.1 Introduction	175
	8.2 Self-Assembly Robots	176
	8.3 Tribolon: Water-Based Self-Assembly Robots	178
	8.4 Speculations About Life	195
	References	196
	Artificial Symbiosis in EcoBots	199
	9.1 Introduction	199
	9.2 Materials and Methods	204
	9.3 Results	212
	9.4 Discussion	219
	9.5 Conclusions	223
	References	224
	The Phi-Bot: A Robot Controlled by a Slime Mould	226
	10.1 Introduction	226
	10.2 Physarum Polycephalum as Information Processor	227
	10.3 Cellular Robot Control	228
	10.4 Computation, Control, and Coordination in the F-Bot:Material for a Theory of Bounded Computability	236
	10.5 Conclusion	243
	References	244
	Reaction-Diffusion Controllers for Robots	246
	11.1 Introduction	246
	11.2 BZ Medium	249
	11.3 Robot Taxis	249
	11.4 Open-Loop Parallel Actuators	255
	11.5 Closed-Loop Control of Robotic Hand	264
	11.6 Physarum Robots	268
	11.7 Conclusion	273
	References	276
	Index	278