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
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