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Artificial Life Models in Hardware

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Andrew Adamatzky

    1. Department of Computer Science, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

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  2. Maciej Komosinski

    1. Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

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  • Unique representation of the current state-of-the-art research in robotics
  • Written by top international experts in robotics and artificial life

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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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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. The History and Future of Stiquito: A Hexapod Insectoid Robot

    • James M. Conrad, Jonathan W. Mills
    Pages 1-20

  3. Learning Legged Locomotion

    • Fumiya Iida, Simon Bovet
    Pages 21-33

  4. Salamandra Robotica: A Biologically Inspired Amphibious Robot that Swims and Walks

    • Alessandro Crespi, Auke Jan Ijspeert
    Pages 35-64

  5. Multilocomotion Robot: Novel Concept, Mechanism, and Control of Bio-inspired Robot

    • Toshio Fukuda, Tadayoshi Aoyama, Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Kosuke Sekiyama
    Pages 65-86

  6. Self-regulatory Hardware: Evolutionary Design for Mechanical Passivity on a Pseudo Passive Dynamic Walker

    • Hiroshi Yokoi, Kojiro Matsushita
    Pages 87-102

  7. Perception for Action in Roving Robots: A Dynamical System Approach

    • Paolo Arena, Sebastiano De Fiore, Luca Patané
    Pages 103-132

  8. Nature-inspired Single-electron Computers

    • Tetsuya Asai, Takahide Oya
    Pages 133-159

  9. Tribolon: Water-Based Self-Assembly Robots

    • Shuhei Miyashita, Max Lungarella, Rolf Pfeifer
    Pages 161-184

  10. Artificial Symbiosis in EcoBots

    • Ioannis A. Ieropoulos, John Greenman, Chris Melhuish, Ian Horsfield
    Pages 185-211

  11. The Phi-Bot: A Robot Controlled by a Slime Mould

    • Soichiro Tsuda, Stefan Artmann, Klaus-Peter Zauner
    Pages 213-232

  12. Reaction–Diffusion Controllers for Robots

    • Andrew Adamatzky, Benjamin De Lacy Costello, Hiroshi Yokoi
    Pages 233-264

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 265-267
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"This book presents various contributions to the construction of life-like artifacts that globally show adaptation and evolution, as in the artificial life paradigm. … The book is unique in that it attempts to mix various ideas on building artificial life in hardware … . the book moves toward new methods and tools that represent the cutting edge of research. … this book is appropriate for research; in the long term, it can serve as a reference." (G. Gini, ACM Computing Reviews, November, 2009)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Science, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

    Andrew Adamatzky

  • Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

    Maciej Komosinski

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