Artificial Life Models in Hardware

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Adamatzky, Andrew. (Editor), Komosinski, Maciej. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2009.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer hardware.; Software engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer simulation.; Social sciences > Data processing.; Information systems.; Computer Science.; Computer Hardware.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities.; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems.; Simulation and Modeling.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-530-7

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...

Table of Contents:

• The History and Future of Stiquito, a Hexapod Insectoid Robot
• Learning Legged Locomotion
• Salamandra Robotica: a Biologically Inspired Amphibious Robot that Swims and Walks
• Multi-Locomotion 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
• Index.