Artificial Life Models in Hardware

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Adamatzky, Andrew (Editor), Komosinski, Maciej (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2009.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer hardware.; Special purpose computers.; Artificial intelligence.; Application software.; Robotics.; Automation.; Computer Science.; Computer Hardware.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Robotics and Automation.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities.; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems.

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
• 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.