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Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing Robotic Systems

  • State-of-the-art research inspired by biological principles for self-organizing robotic systems
  • Bridges multi-disciplinary research areas such as robotics, artificial life, systems biology, and evolutionary computation
  • Written by experts in the field

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI, volume 355)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robots

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
    2. On Self-Optimized Self-Assembling of Heterogeneous Multi-robot Organisms

      • Serge Kernbach, Benjamin Girault, Olga Kernbach
      Pages 123-141
    3. Morphogenetic Self-Reconfiguration of Modular Robots

      • Yan Meng, Yaochu Jin
      Pages 143-171
    4. Basic Problems in Self-Assembling Robots and a Case Study of Segregation on Tribolon Platform

      • Shuhei Miyashita, Aubery Marchel Tientcheu Ngouabeu, Rudolf M. Füchslin, Kohei Nakajima, Christof Audretsch, Rolf Pfeifer
      Pages 173-191
  3. Autonomous Mental Development in Robotic Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
    2. Brain Like Temporal Processing

      • Juyang Weng
      Pages 195-212
  4. Special Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213
    2. Towards Physarum Robots

      • Jeff Jones, Soichiro Tsuda, Andrew Adamatzky
      Pages 215-251
    3. Developing Self-Organizing Robotic Cells Using Organic Computing Principles

      • Alwin Hoffmann, Florian Nafz, Andreas Schierl, Hella Seebach, Wolfgang Reif
      Pages 253-273
  5. Back Matter

About this book

Self-organizing approaches inspired from biological systems, such as social insects, genetic, molecular and cellular systems under morphogenesis, and human mental development, has enjoyed great success in advanced robotic systems that need to work in dynamic and changing environments.  Compared with classical control methods for robotic systems, the major advantages of bio-inspired self-organizing robotic systems include robustness, self-repair and self-healing in the presence of system failures and/or malfunctions, high adaptability to environmental changes, and autonomous self-organization and self-reconfiguration without a centralized control. “Bio-inspired Self-organizing Robotic Systems” provides a valuable reference for scientists, practitioners and research students working on developing control algorithms for self-organizing engineered collective systems, such as swarm robotic systems, self-reconfigurable modular robots, smart material based robotic devices, unmanned aerial vehicles, and satellite constellations.

 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, USA

    Yan Meng

  • Department of Computing, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

    Yaochu Jin

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