• DocumentCode
    3229295
  • Title

    Artificial morphogenesis for arbitrary shape generation of swarms of multi agents

  • Author

    Kiwon Yeom ; Park, Ji-Hyung

  • Author_Institution
    Center for Intell. & Interaction, Korea Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Seoul, South Korea
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    23-26 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    509
  • Lastpage
    513
  • Abstract
    This paper describes evolutionary morphogenesis to construct an arbitrary structure by swarms of multi-agents which are simple, independent, autonomous modular agents (robots) that can build two-dimensional structures by means of developmental methods. These structures can be exactly matched with arbitrary shape user defined. Agents dose not require any explicit and centralized control, instead using morphological information, which consists of genomes to coordinate their activities. This article describes a very simple genetic encoding and developmental system designed for self-organization of multicellular agents. The morphogenetic evolution system is inspired by gene expression (genetic encoding) and cellular differentiation. Computer simulations shows that the method can generate any arbitrary shape.
  • Keywords
    genetic algorithms; multi-robot systems; arbitrary shape generation; autonomous modular agents; cellular differentiation; gene expression; genetic encoding system; morphogenetic evolution system; morphological information; multi agent swarm; multicellular agents; Computational modeling; Organisms; Robot kinematics; Software;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA), 2010 IEEE Fifth International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Changsha
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6437-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/BICTA.2010.5645177
  • Filename
    5645177