James M. Conrad, Jonathan W. Mills (auth.), Andrew Adamatzky, Maciej Komosinski (eds.)1848825293, 9781848825291, 1848825307, 9781848825307
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.
Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages i-xviii
The History and Future of Stiquito: A Hexapod Insectoid Robot….Pages 1-20
Learning Legged Locomotion….Pages 21-33
Salamandra Robotica : A Biologically Inspired Amphibious Robot that Swims and Walks….Pages 35-64
Multilocomotion Robot: Novel Concept, Mechanism, and Control of Bio-inspired Robot….Pages 65-86
Self-regulatory Hardware: Evolutionary Design for Mechanical Passivity on a Pseudo Passive Dynamic Walker….Pages 87-102
Perception for Action in Roving Robots: A Dynamical System Approach….Pages 103-132
Nature-inspired Single-electron Computers….Pages 133-159
Tribolon: Water-Based Self-Assembly Robots….Pages 161-184
Artificial Symbiosis in EcoBots….Pages 185-211
The Phi-Bot: A Robot Controlled by a Slime Mould….Pages 213-232
Reaction–Diffusion Controllers for Robots….Pages 233-264
Back Matter….Pages 265-267
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