Symbiotic Multi-Robot Organisms Reliability, Adaptability, Evolution /

• Main Authors: Levi, Paul (Author), Kernbach, Serge (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Cognitive Systems Monographs, 7
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Computational intelligence.; Complexity, Computational.; Control engineering.; Robotics.; Mechatronics.; Computational Intelligence.; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Complexity.

This book is devoted to the study of the evolution of self-organised multicellular structures and the remarkable transition from unicellular to multicellular life. Multicellular organisms provide the inspiration for the development of novel principles of adaptation and evolution for robotics and, in...

Table of Contents:

• Concepts of Symbiotic Robot Organisms
• Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems
• Cognitive Approach in Artificial Organisms
• Adaptive Control Mechanisms
• Learning, Artificial Evolution and Cultural Aspects of Symbiotic Robotics
• Final Conclusions.