Artificial Life Models in Hardware

TitleArtificial Life Models in Hardware
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2009
PublisherSpringer
Abstract

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-living substrates cast a colourful picture of state-of-the-art advances in hardware models of artificial life. Focusing on topics and areas based on non-traditional thinking, and new and emerging paradigms in bio-inspired robotics, this book has a unifying theme: the design and real-world implementation of artificial life robotic devices. Students and researchers will find this coverage of topics such as robotic energy autonomy, multi-locomotion of robots, biologically inspired autonomous robots, evolution in colonies of robotic insects, neuromorphic analog devices, self-configurable robots, and chemical and biological controllers for robots, will considerably enhance their understanding of the issues involved in the development of not-traditional hardware systems at the cusp of artificial life and robotics.

URLhttp://www.springer.com/978-1-84882-529-1
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