Artificial Life Models in Hardware
Editors: Adamatzky, Andrew, Komosinski, Maciej (Eds.)
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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.
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From the reviews:
"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)
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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The History and Future of Stiquito: A Hexapod Insectoid Robot
Pages 1-20
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Learning Legged Locomotion
Pages 21-33
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Salamandra Robotica: A Biologically Inspired Amphibious Robot that Swims and Walks
Pages 35-64
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Multilocomotion Robot: Novel Concept, Mechanism, and Control of Bio-inspired Robot
Pages 65-86
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Self-regulatory Hardware: Evolutionary Design for Mechanical Passivity on a Pseudo Passive Dynamic Walker
Pages 87-102
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Artificial Life Models in Hardware
- Editors
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- Andrew Adamatzky
- Maciej Komosinski
- Copyright
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag London
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag London
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-84882-530-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-84882-530-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-84882-529-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-84996-848-5
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 268
- Topics
