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Artificial life models in hardware / Andrew Adamatzky, Maciej Komosinski, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, c2009.Description: xviii, 267 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781848825291 (hbk)
  • 1848825293 (hbk.)
  • 1848825307 (e-ISBN)
  • 9781848825307 (e-ISBN)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 006.3   22
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.
Summary: Focusing on topics and areas based on non-traditional thinking, and new and emerging paradigms in bio-inspired robotics, this book examines the design and real-world implementation of artificial life robotic deviceSummary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Focusing on topics and areas based on non-traditional thinking, and new and emerging paradigms in bio-inspired robotics, this book examines the design and real-world implementation of artificial life robotic device

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.

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.

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