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This paper focuses on characteristics and applications of evolvable hardware (EHW) to space systems. The motivation for looking at EHW originates in the need for more autonomous adaptive space systems. The idea of evolvable hardware becomes attractive for long missions when the hardware looses optimality, and uploading new software only partly alleviates the problem if the computing hardware becomes obsolete or the sensing hardware faces needs outside original design specifications. The paper reports the first intrinsic evolution on an analog ASIC (a custom analog neural chip), suggests evolution of dynamical systems in state-space representations, and demonstrates evolution of compression algorithms with results better than the best-known compression algorithms.
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Stoica, A., Fukunaga, A., Hayworth, K., Salazar-Lazaro, C. (1998). Evolvable hardware for space applications. In: Sipper, M., Mange, D., Pérez-Uribe, A. (eds) Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware. ICES 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1478. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0057618
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