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Robot Control: From Silicon Circuitry to Cells

Tsuda, S., Zauner, K. P. and Gunji, Y. P. (2006) Robot Control: From Silicon Circuitry to Cells. In: Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology, Second International Workshop, BioADIT 2006, Osaka, Japan, January 26-27, 2006, Proceedings, pp. 20-32, Springer. ISBN 3-540-31253-6

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Abstract

Life-like adaptive behaviour is so far an illusive goal in robot
control. A capability to act successfully in a complex, ambiguous, and
harsh environment would vastly increase the application domain of
robotic devices. Established methods for robot control run up against
a complexity barrier, yet living organisms amply demonstrate that this
barrier is not a fundamental limitation. To gain an understanding of how
the nimble behaviour of organisms can b e duplicated in made-for-purpose
devices we are exploring the use of biological cells in robot control. This
paper describes an experimental setup that interfaces an amoeboid plasmodium
of Physarum polycephalum with an omnidirectional hexapod robot to realise
an interaction loop between environment and plasticity in control. Through
this bio-electronic hybrid architecture the continuous negotiation process
between local intracellular reconfiguration on the micro-physical scale and
global behaviour of the cell in a macroscale environment can be studied in
a device setting.

Item Type:Book Section
Creator/Authors:
Soichiro Tsuda
Klaus-Peter Zauner
Yukio-Pegio Gunji
Editors:
Auke Jan Ijspeert
Toshimitsu Masuzawa
Shinji Kusumoto
Keywords:molecular computing, cellular computation
Additional Information:LNCS Vol. 3853
Research Group:Old ECS Groups > BIO@ECS Research Group
Old ECS Groups > Science and Engineering of Natural Systems
Current ECS Groups > Agents, Interaction and Complexity
Alternative Locations:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11613022_5
ISBN:3-540-31253-6
Date:2006
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