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2001
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Two-Step Incremental Evolution of a Prosthetic Hand Controller Based on Digital Logic Gates
Abstract. Evolvable Hardware (EHW) has been proposed as a new method for designing systems for real-world applications. In this paper it is applied for evolving a prosthetic hand c...
Jim Torresen
ICES
2001
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Polymorphic Electronics
This paper introduces the concept of polymorphic electronics (polytronics) –referring to electronics with superimposed built-in functionality. A function change does not require ...
Adrian Stoica, Ricardo Salem Zebulum, Didier Keyme...
ICES
2001
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A Self-Repairing and Self-Healing Electronic Watch: The BioWatch
Abstract. The Embryonics project is inspired by some of the basic processes of molecular biology, such as the embryonic development of living beings. Transposing these processes in...
André Stauffer, Daniel Mange, Gianluca Temp...
ICES
2001
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Evolutionary Design Calibration
Abstract. Evolutionary methods are now beginning to be used routinely in design applications. However, even with computing speeds growing continuously, for many complex design prob...
Thorsten Schnier, Xin Yao
ICES
2001
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A VLSI Implementation of an Analog Neural Network Suited for Genetic Algorithms
The usefulness of an artificial analog neural network is closely bound to its trainability. This paper introduces a new analog neural network architecture using weights determined...
Johannes Schemmel, Karlheinz Meier, Felix Schü...
ICES
2001
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Initial Experiments of Reconfigurable Sensor Adapted by Evolution
Missions to planets with unknown environmental condition, have recently been approached with new ideas, such as use of biology-inspired mechanisms for hardware sensor adaptation. I...
Didier Keymeulen, Ricardo Salem Zebulum, Adrian St...
ICES
2001
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Untidy Evolution: Evolving Messy Gates for Fault Tolerance
Abstract. The exploitation of the physical characteristics has already been demonstrated in the intrinsic evolution of electronic circuits. This paper is an initial attempt at crea...
Julian F. Miller, Morten Hartmann
ICES
2001
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Initial Studies of a New VLSI Field Programmable Transistor Array
A system for intrinsic hardware evolution of analog electronic circuits is presented. It consists of a VLSI chip featuring 16 × 16 programmable transistor cells, an FPGA based PCI...
Jörg Langeheine, Joachim Becker, Simon Fö...
ICES
2001
Springer
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Embryonics: Artificial Cells Driven by Artificial DNA
Abstract. Embryonics is a long-term research project attempting to draw inspiration from the biological process of ontogeny, to implement novel digital computing machines endowed w...
Lucian Prodan, Gianluca Tempesti, Daniel Mange, An...