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2005
IEEE
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Co-evolutionary Variance Can Guide Physical Testing in Evolutionary System Identification
Co-evolution of system models and system tests can be used for exploratory system identification of physical platforms. Here we demonstrate how the amount of physical testing can ...
Viktor Zykov, Josh C. Bongard, Hod Lipson
EH
2005
IEEE
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On the Robustness Achievable with Stochastic Development Processes
Manufacturing processes are a key source of faults in complex hardware systems. Minimizing this impact of manufacturing uncertainties is one way towards achieving fault tolerant s...
Shivakumar Viswanathan, Jordan B. Pollack
EH
2005
IEEE
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Evolutionary Computation Technologies for the Automated Design of Space Systems
The Evolvable Computation Group, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is tasked with demonstrating the utility of computational engineering and computer optimized design for com...
Richard Terrile, Hrand Aghazarian, Michael I. Ferg...
EH
2005
IEEE
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A Move Processor for Bio-Inspired Systems
The structure and operation of multi-cellular organisms relies, among other things, on the specialization of the cells’ physical structure to a finite set of specific operatio...
Gianluca Tempesti, Pierre-André Mudry, Ralp...
EH
2005
IEEE
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Embryonic Machines That Grow, Self-Replicate and Self-Repair
After a reminder about embryonic machines endowed with universal construction and universal computation properties, this paper presents a novel architecture providing additional s...
André Stauffer, Daniel Mange, Gianluca Temp...
EH
2005
IEEE
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Evolving Assembly Plans for Fully Automated Design and Assembly
Evolutionary Design has demonstrated great potential to automatically generate a wide array of novel, interesting, and human-competitive designs. Few of these evolved designs, how...
John Rieffel, Jordan B. Pollack
EH
2005
IEEE
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Complexity Metrics for Self-monitoring Impact Sensing Networks
In this paper we describe novel metrics measuring complexity in self-organising networks. The metrics are investigated within the context of decentralised inspections, developed a...
Mikhail Prokopenko, Peter Wang, Don Price
EH
2005
IEEE
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Survivability of Embryonic Memories: Analysis and Design Principles
This paper proposes an original approach to the reliability analysis for Embryonics [4], by introducing the accuracy threshold measure, borrowed from fault-tolerant quantum comput...
Lucian Prodan, Mihai Udrescu, Mircea Vladutiu
EH
2005
IEEE
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Space Bionanorobotic Systems: Design and Applications
This paper describes novel concepts of space bionanorobotic systems that are based on revolutionary bio-nano-mechanisms formed by protein and DNA based nano-components. Nano-robot...
Constantinos Mavroidis, Ajay Ummat
EH
2005
IEEE
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Implementation Results for a Fault-Tolerant Multicellular Architecture Inspired by Endocrine Communication
The hybrid redundancy structure found at the cellular level of higher animals provides complex organism with the three key features of a reliability-engineered system: fault toler...
Andrew J. Greensted, Andy M. Tyrrell