Editors:
- Brings together contributions from Engineering and Computer Science to unify the study and analysis of collectives of lattice automata and multi-robotic systems
- Written in simple language accessible not only to scientists and engineers but also to undergraduates and interested laymen
- Robotic systems presented and discussed in the book will pose a high degree of interest to industry and private companies
- Challenges discussed in the book will inspire mathematicians and computer scientists to contribute to the field of robotic engineering in many aspects
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Emergence, Complexity and Computation (ECC, volume 13)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The book gives a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art research and engineering in theory and application of Lattice Automata in design and control of autonomous Robots. Automata and robots share the same notional meaning. Automata (originated from the latinization of the Greek word “αυτόματον”) as self-operating autonomous machines invented from ancient years can be easily considered the first steps of robotic-like efforts. Automata are mathematical models of Robots and also they are integral parts of robotic control systems. A Lattice Automaton is a regular array or a collective of finite state machines, or automata. The Automata update their states by the same rules depending on states of their immediate neighbours.
In the context of this book, Lattice Automata are used in developing modular reconfigurable robotic systems, path planning and map exploration for robots, as robot controllers, synchronisation of robot collectives, robot vision, parallel robotic actuators. All chapters are written in an accessible manner and lavishly illustrated. The book will help computer and robotic scientists and engineers to understand mechanisms of decentralised functioning of robotic collectives and to design future and emergent reconfigurable, parallel and distributed robotic systems.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis
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Unconventional Computing Centre, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom
Andrew Adamatzky
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Robots and Lattice Automata
Editors: Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis, Andrew Adamatzky
Series Title: Emergence, Complexity and Computation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10924-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-10923-7Published: 21 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38548-8Published: 24 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-10924-4Published: 11 October 2014
Series ISSN: 2194-7287
Series E-ISSN: 2194-7295
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 313
Number of Illustrations: 89 b/w illustrations, 91 illustrations in colour
Topics: Robotics and Automation, Complexity, Computational Intelligence, Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks