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. Unique representation of the current state-of-the-art research in robotics Written by top international experts in robotics and artificial life INDICE: The History and Future of Stiquito, a Hexapod Insectoid Robot.- Learning Legged Locomotion.- Salamandra Robotica: a Biologically Inspired Amphibious Robot that Swims and Walks.- Multi-Locomotion Robot: Novel Concept, Mechanism and Control of Bio-Inspired Robot.- Self-Regulatory Hardware: Evolutionary Design for Mechanical Passivity on a Pseudo Passive Dynamic Walker.- Perception for Action in Roving Robots: a Dynamical System Approach.- Nature-InspiredSingle-Electron Computers.- Tribolon: Water Based Self-Assembley Robots.- Artificial Symbiosis in Ecobots.- The Phi-Bot: A Robot Controlled by a Slime Mould.- Reaction-Diffusion Controllers for Robots.- Index.
- ISBN: 978-1-84882-529-1
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 285
- Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés