Morphogenetic Engineering
Toward Programmable Complex Systems
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Emergent Swarm Morphology Control of Wireless Networked Mobile Robots
We describe a new class of decentralised control algorithms that link local wireless connectivity to low-level robot motion control in order to maintain both swarm aggregation and connectivity, which we term “...
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Functional Blueprints: An Approach to Modularity in Grown Systems
The engineering of grown systems poses fundamentally different system integration challenges than ordinary engineering of static designs. On the one hand, a grown system must be capable of surviving not only i...
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Morphogenetic Engineering: Reconciling Self-Organization and Architecture
Generally, phenomena of spontaneous pattern formation are random and repetitive, whereas elaborate devices are the deterministic product of human design. Yet, biological organisms and collective insect constru...
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A Synthesis of the Cell2Organ Developmental Model
Over the past two decades, many techniques have been elaborated to simulate artificial, robotic creatures at different scales. After behavioral models in the 1990s, researchers made the robot morphologies evolvab...
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Morphogenetic Robotics: A New Paradigm for Designing Self-Organizing, Self-Reconfigurable and Self-Adaptive Robots
By morphogenetic robotics, we mean a class of methodologies for designing self-organizing, self-reconfigurable and self-adaptive robots inspired by biological morphogenesis. We categorize these methodologies into...
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Interaction-Based Modeling of Morphogenesis in MGS
In this chapter, we advocate a domain specific language (DSL) approach to overcome the difficulties of modeling and simulating morphogenetic processes. A careful discussion of the design goals of a DSL leads to t...
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Collective Construction with Robot Swarms
Social insects build large, complex structures, which emerge through the collective actions of many simple agents acting with no centralized control or preplanning. These natural systems inspire the research t...
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Swarm-Based Computational Development
Swarms are a metaphor for complex dynamic systems. In swarms, large numbers of individuals locally interact and form non-linear, dynamic interaction networks. Ants, wasps and termites, for instance, are natura...
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Programming Self-Assembling Systems via Physically Encoded Information
Throughout nature, in both the inorganic and organic realms, complex entities emerge as a result of self-assembly from decentralised components governed by simple rules. Natural self-assembly is dictated by th...
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Chemotaxis-Inspired Cellular Primitives for Self-Organizing Shape Formation
Motivated by the ability of living cells to form specific shapes and structures, we are investigating chemotaxis-inspired cellular primitives for self-organizing shape formation. This chapter details our initi...
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Embryomorphic Engineering: Emergent Innovation Through Evolutionary Development
Embryomorphic Engineering, a particular instance of Morphogenetic Engineering, takes its inspiration directly from biological development to create new robotic, software or network architectures by decentralized ...
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Mechanisms for Complex Systems Engineering Through Artificial Development
We argue that artificial development is an appropriate means of approaching complex systems engineering. Artificial development works via the inclusion of mechanisms that enhance the evolvability of a design s...
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SWARMORPH: Morphogenesis with Self-Assembling Robots
We detail progress towards giving robots the capacity to assemble into appropriate morphologies and to operate as a single entity when physically connected to one another. Our work is conducted on the Swarm-bo...
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A Computational Framework for Multilevel Morphologies
The hierarchical organisation of biological systems plays a crucial role in processes of pattern formation regulated by gene expression, and in morphogenesis in general. Inspired by the development of living o...
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Distributed Autonomous Morphogenesis in a Self-Assembling Robotic System
We present distributed morphogenesis control strategies in a swarm of robots able to autonomously assemble into 3D symbiotic organisms to perform specific tasks. Each robot in such a system can work autonomous...
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Behavior-Finding: Morphogenetic Designs Shaped by Function
Evolution has shaped an incredible diversity of multicellular living organisms, whose complex forms are self-made through a robust developmental process. This fundamental combination of biological evolution an...
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Issues in Self-Repairing Robotic Self-Assembly
Robot swarms provide interesting and potentially very useful examples of self-organizing systems. This chapter focuses on a specific approach, dubbed “active self-assembly”, for constructing arbitrary shapes w...
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Programmable and Self-Organised Processes in Plant Morphogenesis: The Architectural Development of Ryegrass
The morphology of forage grass, in particular ryegrass, emerges from the combination of many entangled dynamical processes. Although a plant seems to possess an intrinsic (i.e., genetically determined) architectu...
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Swarm-Based Morphogenetic Artificial Life
We present a swarm-based framework for designing and implementing morphogenetic artifacts that can grow, self-organize and self-repair in a fully decentralized manner. Artifacts are realized as swarms of multi...
